North Korea's demolition of the South-North Liaison Office building in the border town of Kaesong last week was outrageous, but it also showed Pyongyang's limitations in its actions against Seoul in the rising tensions between both nations.
The shapely four-storey glass structure was built as a symbol of a new era of detente in inter-Korean relations, supposedly starting with the signing of an agreement on peaceful cooperation by President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018.
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