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- The past two years have seen unprecededent progress between North and South Korea, with a flurry of diplomacy between the long-time foes that yielded a number of confidence-building measures.
- But that progress appeared to crumble this week, when North Korea blew up a liaison building on its territory, clearly intending to send a message to its neighbor.
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What a difference two years makes. The spring and summer of 2018 saw an extraordinary rapprochement between the two Koreas, as their leaders held successive face-to-face meetings, culminating in a landmark visit by South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang.
The flurry of diplomacy produced a number of joint declarations, agreements, hotlines and other confidence-building measures, including an inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong, just 6 miles into North Korean territory from the Demilitarized Zone. It was the first full-time communication channel and served as a de facto embassy between the two sides, which are technically still at war having not signed a peace agreement after the Korean War ended in 1953.
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