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North Korea demolishes symbol of hope for reunification with South – report
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 26, 2024 07:26pm |
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| Author | Justin McCurry |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 24, 2024 02:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | North Korea has demolished a monument that symbolised hope for reconciliation with the South, days after the regime’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said the peaceful reunification of the two Koreas was no longer possible.
In the latest sign of rising tensions on the peninsula, the Arch of Reunification – built in 2000 after a landmark inter-Korean summit – has disappeared from satellite imagery, according to the NK News website. It was not immediately clear when or how it had been taken down, NK News said.
Kim, whose tone has become markedly belligerent in recent weeks, described the concrete arch – which shows two women, one each from the North and South, holding an emblem of the outline of the Korean peninsula – as an “eyesore” at a speech this month to the Supreme People’s Assembly, the North’s rubber-stamp parliament. |
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