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>>> WE HAVE SOME BREAKING NEWS
THIS MORNING.
SOUTH KOREA SAYS NORTH KOREA HAS
BLOWN UP AN INTERLIAISON
BUILDING.
NORTH KOREA HAD THREATENED TO
DEMOLISH THE OFFICE AS IT
STEPPED UP RHETORIC OVER SOUTH
KOREA NOT STOPPING PROPAGANDA
FLYING OVER THE BORDER.
THIS SHOWS THE MOMENT THE
BOMBING TOOK PLACE.
IT COMES AS THE UNITED STATES
AND NORTH KOREA REMAINS
DEADLOCKED ON NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY.
JOINING US SENIOR INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENT KIER SIMMONS.
SO WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED HERE?
>> Reporter: WILLIE, THIS IS
SYMBOLIC AND ALSO I THINK
POTENTIALLY SERIOUS, NOT LEAST
FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AS HE HEADS
TOWARDS THE ELECTION IN
NOVEMBER.
THIS INTER-KOREAN LIAISON OFFICE
WAS SET UP IN 2018 AMID MUCH
FANFARE.
IT WAS A SYMBOL OF PEACE NOW
IT’S BEEN REDUCED TO RUBBLE.
THERE IS THE NORTH KOREAN, THE
THREAT TO DO THIS WAS MADE BY
KIM JONG-UN’S SISTER.
AND I THINK IT’S A SIGN OF THE
TENSION INSIDE NORTH KOREA.
FOR EXAMPLE, CORONAVIRUS,
THEY’VE HAD TO CLOSE THEIR
BORDERS.
THAT WILL HAVE HAD REAL IMPACT
ECONOMIC IMPACTS.
THEY’RE ANGRY ABOUT BALLOONS
BEING SENT ACROSS THE BORDER
FROM THE SOUTH WITH NEWS FROM
SOUTH KOREA AND DOLLAR BILLS IN
THEM.
BUT I THINK MORE BROADLY THERE
IS DEEP FRUSTRATION IN NORTH
KOREA IN PYONGYANG ABOUT THE
STALEMATE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND WITH PRESIDENT MOON OF SOUTH
KOREA.
I THINK YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER HOW
MUCH KIM JONG-UN INVESTED IN
THAT RELATIONSHIP AND IN THOSE
TALKS AND THERE HASN’T BEEN
PROGRESS NOW FOR SOME TIME.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IN THE
MONTHS TO COME, WHAT’S BEING
THREATENED IS THE CLASSIC
ESCALATION BY NORTH KOREA TO GET
ATTENTION.
WILLIE.
>> WE SHOULD POINT OUT THERE WAS
NOBODY IN THE BUILDING, IT WAS
CLOSED AT THE TIME OF THE
EXPLOSION.
