South Korea said it has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from North Korea for the 2020 demolition of a liaison office
The office was established in 2018 with funding from Seoul at an industrial zone near the border in North Korean territory, as South Korea's then-president Moon Jae-in pressed for a diplomatic breakthrough with Pyongyang.
"We submitted a complaint to the Seoul Central District Court to claim damages against North Korea for 44.7 billion won ," South Korea's unification ministry said, describing the demolition as"clearly an illegal act". It said the suit was filed because the statute of limitations for property damage in the case expired on Friday.
In 2020, a South Korean court ordered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to compensate two former prisoners of war who spent decades as forced labourers.
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