North Korea: Kim Jong Un Suspended Military Retaliation Against South Korea

North Korea: Kim Jong Un Suspended Military Retaliation Against South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in this undated photo released on Dec. 29, 2019, by North Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via Reuters
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SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea said on June 24 that leader Kim Jong Un suspended a planned military retaliation against South Korea.

Last week, the North had declared relations with the South as fully ruptured, destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office in its territory and threatened unspecified military action to censure Seoul for a lack of progress in bilateral cooperation and for activists floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.