Unification minister says explosion of liaison office was expected
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| Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul is surrounded by journalists at National Assembly in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap |
South Korea's unification minister said Tuesday that North Korea's detonation of the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong was already preannounced by the North and Seoul would need more details to assess the situation.
Appearing in a session of the parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs and unification, Minister Kim Yeon-chul said, "It is something partly preannounced (by North Korea)."
