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North Korea threatens to send troops into demilitarised border zone

The General Staff of North Korea鈥檚 army has vowed to send troops back into demilitarised areas near the border with South Korea. The warning was made on state media just a day after Pyongyang blew up a joint liaison office set up in a border town as part of a peace initiative between the two Koreas. 大象传媒 Newsday鈥檚 James Copnall spoke to Jeffrey Robertson, an Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul.

(Photo: A soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea Credit: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)

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