North Korea announces it has severed all communications with South Korea, a move analysts believe could be an attempt to manufacture a crisis and force concessions from its neighbor.
Cutting off communication lines between the countries' leaders and militaries was the first step before it"completely shut down all contact means with South Korea," it said.
"The communications line between South and North Korea ... must be maintained as agreed," an official from South Korea's Unification Ministry said in a briefing. "She appears to have long been trusted by her brother," said John Nilsson-Wright, a senior research fellow at the London think tank Chatham House."Having been put in charge of propaganda and publicity for the regime, she necessarily is an important figure in the power structure."Last week, she called the North Korean defectors who have fled to South Korea"human scum" and"mongrel dogs" for flying propaganda leaflets back across the border.
The country's last summit with Trump broke down without an agreement, and subsequent negotiations have seen no progress toward North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons, as Washington says it hopes it will.
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