South Korean President Moon accepts resignation of minister responsible for relations with North Korea as tensions rise with Pyongyang
Kim Yeon-chul, a nominee for South Korean unification minister, attends a confirmation hearing for the post at the national assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on March 26, 2019.
After seeing a boost in favourability over his government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, Moon's approval rating fell to 55 percent, the lowest level in about three months, driven by worries over North Korea, according to a Gallup Korea poll released on Friday. Citing South Korea's failure to stop the defectors, North Korea this week blew up the joint liaison office on its side of the border, declared an end to dialogue with South Korea and threatened military action.Unification Ministry spokeswoman Cho Hye-sil told a briefing on Friday that an emigre planning to send hundreds of bottles stuffed with rice, medicine and medical face masks to North Korea by throwing them into the sea near the border on Sunday, had been asked to abandon its plan.
But state media kept up steady stream of reports on North Koreans "exploding with anger" at the South. Analysts say the North may be seeking to manufacture a crisis to increase pressure on the South to extract concessions.summit in HanoiThat meeting foundered on what the nuclear-armed North would be willing to give up in exchange for a loosening of sanctions.
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