China News Service, June 16 According to reports from Korean media, on June 16, the Korean Unification Ministry confirmed that the North Korea-Korea Liaison Office in the Kaesong Industrial Park in North Korea was blasted.
Recently, the DPRK has taken a series of actions to protest the distribution of anti-DPRK flyers from South Korea to North Korea by "North Korean defectors" in South Korea and the way South Korea handles the matter. On June 5, North Korea announced that it would close the North Korea-Korea liaison office in the Kaesong Industrial Park. On the 9th, it announced that it would cut off all communication lines between North Korea and South Korea.
On June 16, the General Staff of the Korean People's Army issued a press communiqué stating that "the Korean army has maintained a state of perfect preparations." The Korean army will implement the decisions and instructions of the Korean party and government.
According to reports, the Kaesong Industrial Park is located in North Korea and was put into operation in 2005. It is the main result of the economic cooperation between the ROK and the DPRK. In February 2016, the operation was suspended due to factors such as tight relations between the ROK and the DPRK. Since then, Korean employees who worked in the Kaicheng Industrial Park have repeatedly applied to go to the DPRK, but the Korean government has always refused on the grounds that the conditions are not mature.
The analysis pointed out that at the beginning of 2019, due to the good relations between the DPRK and South Korea, people have great expectations for restarting the Kaicheng Park. However, after the breakdown of the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi, the US-DPRK denuclearization talks were off track, and the DPRK-ROK relationship was also deadlocked. The restart of the Kaesong industrial park may be far away.