SEOUL (AFP): North Korea threatened Wednesday (June 17) to bolster its military presence at now-shuttered inter-Korean project sites and rebuild guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone, a day after it blew up its liaison office with Seoul, sharply raising tensions on the peninsula.
In a series of denunciations of Seoul, it rejected an offer it said had come from the South's President Moon Jae-in to send an envoy for talks.
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