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North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations’ leaders. The North said this was the first in a series of actions, describing South Korea as “the enemy”. Daily calls, which have been made to a liaison office located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, will cease from Tuesday. The two states had set up the office to reduce tensions after talks in 2018. North and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953. North Korea “will completely cut off and shut down the liaison line between the authorities of the North and the South, which has been maintained through the North-South joint liaison office… from 12:00 on 9 June 2020,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said. Military communication channels will also be cut, North Korea said. When the liaison office was temporarily closed in January because of Covid-19 restrictions, contact between the two states was maintained by phone. The two Koreas made two phone calls a day through the office, at 09:00 and 17:00. On Monday, the South said that for the first time in 21 months, its morning call had gone unanswered, although contact was made in the afternoon. “We have reached a conclusion that there is no need to sit face-to-face with the south Korean authorities and there is no issue to discuss with them, as they have only aroused our dismay,” KNCA said. Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s sister, threatened last week to close the office unless South Korea stopped defector groups from sending leaflets into the North. She said the leaflet campaign was a hostile act that violated the peace agreements made during the 2018 Panmunjom summit between the South’s Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un. It’s likely that this shut down isn’t just about sending leaflets over the border – but instead, all part of a grander plan by Pyongyang. North Korea may be creating a crisis in order to use the tension as leverage in later talks. In short, it could be simply spoiling for a fight to get attention and ask for more from its neighbour. They’ve played this particular game before in 2013 to try to win more concessions from South Korea. It’s also a good distraction domestically. Kim Jong-un is failing to deliver the economic prosperity he keeps promising and rumours continue to circulate that Covid-19 is affecting parts of the country. Giving the nation a common enemy helps rally his people back around a cause. It’s worth noting one of the two signatures on this policy. Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-Jong gave the order to sever ties with Seoul. This gives her a platform and the spotlight and will fuel more speculation that she is being groomed as a potential leader. But how disappointing this must be for the Moon administration. Two years ago in a wave of optimism, the country cheered as the two leaders met and agreed to keep the phone lines open. Now all calls to the North are not being picked up. And the question is, if this is just the start of Pyongyang’s plan, what comes next? North Korean defectors occasionally send balloons carrying leaflets critical of the communist region into the North, sometimes with supplies to entice North Koreans to pick them up. North Koreans can only get news from state-controlled media, and most do not have access to the internet. Ties between the North and South appeared to improve in 2018, when the leaders of both countries met three times. Such high-level meetings had not taken place in over a decade. But Pyongyang largely cut off contact with Seoul following the collapse of a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Hanoi last year that left nuclear talks at a standstill. The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-1953 Korean war ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
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कोरिया : दक्षिणसँग सबै सञ्चार सम्पर्क बन्द गरिएको उत्तर कोरियाको भनाइ उत्तर कोरियाले दक्षिण कोरियासँग दुई देशका नेताहरूबीचको हटलाइन लगायत सबै सञ्चार सम्पर्क बन्द गर्ने बताएको छ। उत्तर कोरियाले दक्षिण कोरियालाई 'शत्रु' भन्दै सञ्चार सम्पर्क बन्द गर्नुलाई आफूले थालेको कारबाहीहरूको पहिलो कदम भनेको छ। मङ्गलवारदेखि दुई कोरियाका सम्पर्क कार्यालयमहरूबीच हुँदै आएको नियमित दैनिक सञ्चार सम्पर्क बन्द भएको छ। सन् २०१८ मा भएको वार्तापछि दुई देशले आपसी तनाव कम गर्ने उद्देशयका साथ त्यस्तो सम्पर्क कार्यालय स्थापना गरेका थिए। सन् १९५३ मा समाप्त भएको कोरियाली युद्धपछि दुई देशबीच कुनै शान्ति सम्झौता नभएका कारण यी दुई देश प्राविधिक रूपमा अझै युद्धमै रहेका छन्। एक कोरियाली समाचारसंस्था केसीएनएका अनुसार उत्तर कोरियाले 'सन् २०२० जून ९ को १२ बजेदेखि उत्तर-दक्षिण संयुक्त सम्पर्क कार्यालयमार्फत् दुवै देशका अधिकारीबीच स्थापित सञ्चार सम्पर्क पूर्ण रूपमा बन्द गर्ने छ।' उत्तर कोरियाले सैन्य सञ्चार सम्पर्क प्रणाली पनि बन्द गर्ने बताएको छ। ज्यानुअरीमा कोभिड-१९ का कारण सम्पर्क कार्यालय अस्थायी रूपमा बन्द हुँदा पनि फोनमार्फत् दुई देशबीचको सम्पर्क कायमै थियो। दुवै देशले बिहान ९ र बेलुकी ५ बजे उक्त सम्पर्क कार्यालयमार्फत् फोन वार्ता गर्ने गरेका थिए। सोमवार दक्षिण कोरियाले २१ महिनामा पहिलो पटक बिहानको समयमा हुँदै आएको फोन सम्पर्क हुन नसकेको बताए पनि अपराह्नमा भने फोन सम्पर्क भएको थियो। उत्तर कोरियाका नेताकी बहिनी किम यो-जङ्ले गत साता दक्षिण कोरियाले उत्तर कोरियाबाट भागेर दक्षिणमा गएकाहरूको समूहलाई उत्तर कोरियामा विभिन्न पर्चाहरू पठाउन नरोके त्यस्तो सम्पर्क कार्यालय बन्द गर्ने चेतावनी दिएकी थिइन्। उनले त्यस्तो पर्चा अभियानलाई शत्रुतापूर्ण कार्य भन्दै त्यसले दुई देशबीच सन् २०१८ मा भएको शान्ति सम्झौताहरू उलंघन हुन गएको बताएकी थिइन्। सन् २०१८ मा भएको पानमुनजोम शिखर बैठकका बेला दक्षिणका मून जे-इन र उत्तरका किम जङ्-अन बीच त्यस्तो शान्ति सम्झौता भएको थियो उत्तर कोरियाबाट भागेर दक्षिण कोरिया आएका व्यक्तिहरूले बेलुनमार्फत् उत्तरको नेतृत्वको आलोचनाले भरिपूर्ण पर्चाहरू उत्तर कोरियामा पठाउने गर्छन्। ती पर्चाप्रति मानिसलाई आकर्षित गर्न बेलुनमा पर्चासँगै खानेकुराहरू समेत राखेर पठाइने गरेको बताइन्छ। उत्तर कोरियालीहरूले राज्य नियन्त्रित सञ्चारमाध्यमबाट मात्रै समाचार प्राप्त गर्न सक्छन् र धेरैको इन्टरनेटमा पहुँच छैन।