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NEWS North Korea destroys South Korean fire station in Mount Kumgang tourist region North Korea tore down a fire station built by South Korea in the Mount Kumgang tourist region at the end of April, Seoul’s unification ministry announced Friday,

North Korea tore down a fire station built by South Korea in the Mount Kumgang tourist region at the end of April, Seoul’s unification ministry announced Friday, a move that one expert said will do little to damage inter-Korean relations, which are already at a low point. 

The unification ministry stated during a regular press briefing that the fire station was one of two in the area built with South Korean financing and condemned Pyongyang for unilaterally dismantling the ROK-owned facility. 

The destruction of the fire station comes after North Korea abandoned its former policy of pursuing reunification  last year, declaring the South a separate enemy state. 

Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Center for Korean Peninsula Strategy at the Sejong Institute, told NK News that the demolition may reflect North Korea’s desire “to erase traces of the past.”

Once jointly run by the two Koreas, Seoul suspended travel to the Mount Kumgang tourist region in 2008 after a South Korean tourist
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