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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s powerful military announced Wednesday that it will shut the country’s border with the South on Dec. 1 — a marked escalation of threats against Seoul’s new conservative government.
The military’s chief delegate to inter-Korean talks told his South Korean counterpart Wed nesday that the North will “restrict and cut off” cross-border routes next month, state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
Also Wednesday, the North’s foreign ministry announced that it won’t allow outside inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex to verify its accounting of past nuclear activities.The North said it never agreed to such sampling, contradicting statements by U.S. officials.
