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Seoul’s unification minister resigns over North Korea tensions
6 years agoSouth Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul meets with reporters at the government complex in Seoul on June 17, 2020, to announce his offer to resign over the worsening of inter-Korean relations. PHOTO: Yonhap/AFP
South Korea's Unification Minister, its point man for relations with the North, stepped down on Friday over heightened tensions on the peninsula, days after Pyongyang blew up its liaison office with the South.