North Korea Removes Personnel from Joint Liaison Office at Kaesong
Predictably the North Koreans have stormed out of the joint liaison office at Kaesong:
North Korean officials withdrew from the inter-Korean liaison office in the border city of Gaeseong on Friday.
KBS World Radio
Seoul’s Unification Ministry said that North Korean officials held a meeting with their South Korean counterparts in the morning to announce the decision.
The North Koreans are said to have cited what they called an order from the upper levels of leadership.
The 15 or so North Korean officials left with only their documents, while leaving behind equipment, noting they didn’t care whether South Korea continues to maintain its office and that they would be in contact with the South to resolve working-level matters.
You can read more at the link, but remember that this is the liaison office that the ROK government spent $8.5 million to renovate.
Somehow coincided to Trump lifting the sanctions?
“What’s that? Trump lifted the sanctions? Okay, guys, pack it up, we’re going home. We don’t need these nam-joseon weasels anymore. The dotard just opened the big US checkbook”.
Please forgive my ineloquent and out-dated slang. It’s just that I think I finally have this figured out. It isn’t Trump chasing a Nobel Prize, it’s Moonpie.
You ever get the feeling that President Moon is like the star-struck junior enlisted guy chasing a nork “hostess” named Kim? And all the while, Kim is “dating a Chinese guy, a Russian guy, and an American guy, all of whom have more money…
It really seems to fit the pattern. But then, some of you have more experience trying to save friends from stuff like that.
They’ll be back when it comes to picking the further equipment or cash for future inter-Korean exchanges.