Analysts say the North may be seeking to manufacture a crisis to increase pressure on the South. FMTNews
June 19, 2020 5:04 PM
President Moon Jae-in “accepted Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul’s offer to resign”, the presidential Blue House said in a statement, after warning it will “no longer tolerate” the North’s unreasonable behaviour in an unusually stern criticism earlier this week. “All measures taken by us are punishments” that the South “deserves for their crimes”, KCNA said in the commentary.
Since early June, North Korea has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of the South over anti-Pyongyang leaflets, which defectors send regularly, usually attached to balloons or floated in bottles. Inter-Korean relations have been in deep freeze for months, following the collapse of a summit in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.
Moon, who has also long backed engagement with the North, has been called unrealistic by his critics for his dovish approach.
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