South Korean President Moon Jae In called an emergency meeting of top security officials, hours after North Korea demolished the inter-Korean liaison office in its border town of Kaesong. The National Security Council meeting was set to open at 5:00 p.m, local time, Yonhap reports. According to the defense and unification ministries, North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office in its border town of Kaesong at 2:49 p.m, local time. The explosion took place three days after Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned that the North will demolish the "useless" communication office in protest of Seoul's "failure" to stop activists from sending anti-North Korean leaflets to the country.

Source: The Standard June 16, 2020 08:26 UTC