SEOUL (AFP): North Korea on Saturday (June 6) has threatened to close a liaison office with the South as officials seethe over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border, saying further steps were also in the pipeline to make Seoul 'suffer'.
Kim Myung-sook sits before a grave of her brother at the National Cemetery as South Korea marks Memorial Day in Seoul on Saturday . Memorial Day remembers Koreans who died during the Korean War or in other battles in support of the country's interests. North Korea on Saturday has threatened to close a liaison office with the South as officials seethe over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border, saying further steps were also in the pipeline to make Seoul"suffer".
The warning is the second in two days of possible retaliation over Seoul's failure to stop North Korean defectors dropping information from hot-air balloons criticising the regime's human rights record and nuclear ambitions. "As the first thing, we will definitely withdraw the idling North-South joint liaison office," a spokesman for the North's United Front Department, which handles inter-Korean relations, said in a statement Friday carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
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