Regime threatens to cut Seoul ties
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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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