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Two days before the building of the liaison office was demolished, there has been some movement in Kaesong since last Sunday. There seems to have been some preliminary work to detonate the building, and efforts have been made, including by sending a special envoy to the government that confirmed it, but it has not stopped North Korea.

Reporter Kim Ji-sung summarized what happened from last Sunday to yesterday (16th).

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Ministry of National Defense reported to the National Assembly that fireworks had been observed since Sunday on the 14th at the South-North Joint Contact Office building.

It is the day after Kim Yeo-jung, the first vice-president, threatened that the liaison office would collapse without shape.

It was analyzed that this spark came from the pre-cutting of the structure to make it easier to blow up the building.

[Hong-cheol Min / Chairman of National Defense Committee: Two days ago, small fireworks were observed in the area. After the explosion, the analysis seems to prepare for the explosion. .] The

next day, the 15th, the day President Moon Jae-in announced the 20th anniversary message of the June 15 North-South summit,

[President Moon Jae-in (the last 15 days): North Korea also cuts communication, creates tensions, and enters the era of confrontation in the past. You shouldn't try to get it back.]

This is the day North Korea announced that the government has proposed sending an envoy.

The President's 6·15 message was originally recorded on the same day with corrections, but it may reflect the situation of the inter-Korean contact office.

[Yang Wook/Director of the Korea Defense Security Forum: Perhaps the last word of the President was the last suggestion to do so in a better direction.]

Publicly dispatched a special envoy through the June 15 message. Through the attempt to prevent hostilities in North Korea, including the blasting of liaison offices, the dispatch of special envoys was eventually overthrown.


[Chosun Central TV: On the 15th, the South Korean authorities directed a thirty-dollar expansive drama

encouraging the dispatch of special envoys.] On the next day, on the 16th, North Korea detonated a liaison office.

(Video editing: Seungjin Lee, CG: Choijinhoe)