Regime threatens to cut Seoul ties
From Times Wire Reports
North Korea threatened to break off all relations with South Korea if its new conservative government continues what the North called a policy of reckless confrontation with the communist nation.
The warning, issued in a commentary in the North’s main newspaper Rodong Sinmun, means Pyongyang could terminate civilian exchanges with the South, including a tourism program and a joint industrial complex, which have continued despite a freeze in government-level ties.
South Korea played down the threat.
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