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FILE - In this June 23, 2020, file photo, police officers ride a boat to collect a ballon carrying a banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the late leader Kim Il Sung and Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, released by Fighters For Free North Korea, in Hongcheon, South Korea. South Korean police said Tuesday, June 30, 2020, that they've summoned two activists accused of raising tensions with North Korea by sending propaganda balloons or plastic bottles filled with rice across the border. (Yang Ji-woong/Yonhap via AP, File)

Seoul police say they’re questioning anti-North activists

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

A banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, the late leader Kim Il Sung, center, and Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, released by Fighters For Free North Korea, is seen in Hongcheon, South Korea, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. A South Korean activist said Tuesday hundreds of thousands of leaflets had been launched by balloon across the border with North Korea overnight, after the North repeatedly warned it would retaliate against such actions. (Yang Ji-woong/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean police raid office of anti-North activist

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the inauguration of the new parliament in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May, 27, 2020. Iran convened its newly elected parliament, dominated by conservative lawmakers and under strict social distancing regulations, as the country struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus that has hit the nation hard. Iran is grappling with one of the deadliest outbreaks in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

Hassan Rouhani, Iran president, expresses solidarity with North Korea against ‘common enemy’ U.S.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in cross the military demarcation line at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone. On both sides of the world's most heavily armed border Thursday, June 25, 2020, solemn ceremonies will mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of a war that killed and injured millions, left large parts of the Korean Peninsula in rubble and technically still continues. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP. File)

70 years after Korean war, animosity and fear still linger

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Korean War veterans attend a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in Cheorwon, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Thursday, June 25, 2020. The three-year Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, when Soviet tank-led North Koreans invaded South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

2 Koreas mark war anniversary after pause in rising tensions

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

In this undated file photo provided on Sunday, May 24, 2020, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in North Korea. Kim suspended his military's plans to take unspecified retaliatory action against South Korea, state media said Wednesday, June 24, possibly slowing a pressure campaign against its rival amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North: Kim Jong-un suspended action against South for Korean impasse

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Flim director Kim Deog-Young speaks during an interview at the exhibition hall for Korean War in Seoul, South Korea Friday, May 29, 2020. His film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” — referring to North Korea's founder and wartime leader — will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary the Korean War's start. The three-year conflict destroyed much of North and South Korea, killed more than 1 million people and orphaned an estimated 100,000 children.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

New film tells tale of North Korean orphans sent to Europe

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

This June 22, 2020, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an inter-Korean liaison office building after being blown up at a shuttered joint industrial park in Kaesong, North Korea. The North blew up the liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on June 16, 2020, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbolic display of anger. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

South Korean activist floats leaflets to North amid tensions

By Hyung-jin and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo provided on June 20, 2020, by the North Korean government shows North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets in North Korea. South Korea on Monday, June 22, 2020 urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border, after the North said it’s ready to float more than 10 million leaflets in what would be the largest such physiological campaign against its southern rival. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

S Korea urges North not to send leaflets amid high tensions

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

U.S. Army equipments sit in a field in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Friday, June 19, 2020. South Korea said Thursday it hasn't detected any suspicious activities by North Korea, a day after it threatened with provocative acts at the border in violation of a 2018 agreement to reduce tensions. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South’s unification minister resigns as Korean tensions rise

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

A visitor watches the northern side from the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Relations between the Koreas have been strained since a second Kim-Trump summit in early 2019 fell apart due to wrangling over the sanctions. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

S. Korea says no suspicious activities by North Korea yet

Associated Press

People watch a TV screen showing a news program with video of the demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office building in Kaesong, North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. North Korea said Wednesday that it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean cooperation sites in its territory and reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas, nullifying tension-reducing deals reached with South Korea just two years ago. The letters read &quot;North Korea, the video of the demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office building.&quot; (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

AP Analysis: N. Korea’s dramatic bang part of measured plan

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Illustration on the Korean situation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Again unhappy with the United States, North Korea puts pressure on South Korea

By Joseph R. DeTrani

North Korea blew up the liaison office building in Kaegon just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a carefully choreographed, largely symbolic display of anger that puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. (Associated Press Photographs)

North Korea demolishes office symbolizing outreach to Seoul

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This May 29, 2020, photo provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of a shuttered joint industrial park, where an inter-Korean liaison office building is located in Kaesong, North Korea. The North blew up the liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, June 16, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbolic display of anger that puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

North Korea says it’s sending soldiers to joint border sites

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this Sept. 14, 2018, file photo, South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, center left, and Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification, center right, attend at an opening ceremony for two Koreas' first liaison office in Kaesong, North Korea. South Korea on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, says North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office amid rising tensions between the rivals. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP, File)

North Korea destroys joint liaison office with South Korea in what it calls a ‘terrific explosion’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday, June 13, 2020, over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Describing South Korea as an “enemy,” Kim repeated an earlier threat she had made by saying Seoul will soon witness the collapse of a “useless” inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesong. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong-un’s sister, threatens military action against South Korea

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. North Korea on Saturday, June 13, 2020 again bashed South Korea, telling its rival to stop “nonsensical” talk about its denuclearization and vowing to expand its military capabilities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kim Jong Un’s sister threatens S. Korea with military action

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday, June 13, 2020, over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Describing South Korea as an “enemy,” Kim repeated an earlier threat she had made by saying Seoul will soon witness the collapse of a “useless” inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesong. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

S Korea urges North to uphold deals amid rising animosities

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. North Korea on Friday, June 12, 2020 again vowed to build up its military force to counter what it perceives as U.S. threats and said there would be little reason for a personal relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington persists with sanctions and pressure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

On summit anniversary, North Korea vows to build up military

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press