Pyongyang Rejects Seoul's Request To Send Special Envoys; To Redeploy Troops To DMZ
Manila Bulletin|June 18, 2020
PYONGYANG, North Korea (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday flatly rejected a plea from South Korea to send special envoys to Pyongyang for talks to ease the current tensions on the peninsula, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
Pyongyang Rejects Seoul's Request To Send Special Envoys; To Redeploy Troops To DMZ

The South Korean authorities “staged the petty farce of asking us to accept special envoys on June 15,” but the “tactless and sinister proposal” was flatly rejected by Kim Yo Jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, said the KCNA.

“We take seriously the south side’s disrespectful attitude of wishing to send special envoys out of a lingering attachment even though they are well aware of the fact that unprecedented state emergency anti-epidemic measures are in force and no entry or exit are allowed from and to the territory of the DPRK,” it said.

“We can guess how much the south side reacts to the present situation and what its anticipation of the consequences could be, but we are extremely displeased to get such an absurd judgment and reckless proposal,” it added.

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