North Korea has blown up its joint liaison office with the South near the border town of Kaesong, South Korean officials say. The liaison office has been empty since January due to Covid-19 restrictions. Tensions between North and South Korea have been escalating for weeks, prompted by defector groups in the south sending propaganda into the north. South Korea's Unification Ministry in Seoul confirmed that at 2.49pm local time there was an explosion at the liaison office. North and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953.

Source: The Star June 16, 2020 07:18 UTC