North Korea said it was shutting a liaison office it shares with South Korea from Tuesday and severing communication over a leaders’ hot line, putting pressure on Seoul to break with Washington’s effort to isolate the country.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said the state was taking the move because South Korean authorities had “connived” to carry out “hostile acts” against the country. The statement appeared to be referring to leaflets critical of leader Kim Jong Un being floated by balloons across the border by anti-Pyongyang activists in South Korea.