The picture shows a hotel at North Korea’s scenic resort of Mount Kumgang. <Photo: Yonhap News>
North Korea has informed South Korea of its decision to temporarily suspend the removal of South Korean-built facilities at its Mount Kumgang resort due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Seoul's unification ministry said Pyongyang relayed its decision Thursday via a telephone line that was set up the same day.
Earlier, the two Koreas agreed to temporarily shut down their joint liaison office in the North's border town of Kaesong until the threat from the virus is "completely eased."
The North demanded last October that the South remove all facilities it built at the mountain resort as part of an inter-Korean tourism project, and also threatened to destroy them unless Seoul took action.■
<Photo: Yonhap News>
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