North Korea blows up liaison office in row over defectors' leaflet campaign – video

North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with South Korea in a row over defectors' plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the heavily armed border. North Korea appears to have acted on a warning by Kim Yo-jong, the increasingly influential sister of the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, to destroy the 'useless' office.

The office opened in September 2018 to facilitate inter-Korean cooperation after successful talks between Kim Jong-un and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.

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