China News Service, June 9th, according to Korean media reports, on the 9th local time, the South Korean Unification Ministry said that North Korea announced the closure of all communication channels between North and South Korea. The relevant channels are the basic way for communication and coordination between the two sides. According to the agreement, both parties should maintain these channels of communication.
The Korean Ministry of Unification said that at 9 a.m. local time on the 9th, the Korean staff of the Korea-Korea Liaison Office dialed the DPRK phone, but the DPRK did not answer.
An official from the Ministry of Unification said that the South Korean government will abide by the DPRK-ROK agreement and strive for peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula.
According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, relevant departments of the DPRK side have completely cut off and abolished the DPRK-Korea communication line, the East-West communication line between the DPRK and the Korean military, and the DPRK-Korean communication, which have been maintained through the Korean and Korean joint liaison office. Test contact line, hotline communication contact line between the WPK Central Headquarters building and Qingwatai.
A spokesman for the North Korean United Front Department made a statement on the 5th, condemning the "North Korean defectors" from South Korea to North Korea for distributing anti-DPRK flyers and South Korea's attitude of condoning the matter, saying that the DPRK decided to close North Korea in the Kaesong Industrial Park Contact the office. The spokesman said that the first deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Yo-jung, has taken key measures to completely eliminate all the provocations of the ROK, and completely cut off and abandon all contact spaces with the ROK. The first action of the DPRK is to close the DPRK-ROK liaison office in the Kaicheng Industrial Park, and other corresponding measures will be taken thereafter.
The Workers’ Party of Korea’s “Labor News” reported on the 4th that Kim and Jung made a statement that day, strongly condemning the “North Korean defectors” group for distributing anti-DPRK flyers, and stressed that if the Korean side does not take corresponding measures, it will face the demolition and closure of the Kaicheng Industrial Park. The DPRK-ROK Liaison Office and the lifting of the "Agreement on the Implementation of the Consensus in the Military Field in the Declaration of Panmunjom" and other consequences.