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  • Jake Kwon
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    Jake Kwon is a producer for CNN based at the network's Seoul bureau.

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  • South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, is questioned from reporters at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the United States. (Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP)

    South Korean Unification Minister offers to step down amid worsening spat with North Korea

  • The North Korean flag flies above the North Korean embassy in Beijing on March 28, 2018. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

    North Korea blows up liaison office in Kaesong used for talks with South

  • TOPSHOT - South Korean soldiers (front) and North Korean soldiers (rear) stand guard before the military demarcation line on the each side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on April 26, 2018 ahead of the inter-Korea summit. (Photo by - / Korea Summit Press Pool / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    North Korea isn't talking to the South anymore. Experts say it could be trying to manufacture a crisis

  • INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 06: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO COMMERCIAL USE.) Jin, V, Jimin, J-Hope, and RM of BTS perform onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2019 Presented by Capital One at the Forum on December 6, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for)

    BTS and its 'Army' donates more than $2 million to Black Lives Matter

  • A worker sprays disinfectant in a classroom at a high school in Seoul on May 19, 2020. - South Korea has been held up as a global model in how to curb the coronavirus, but a spike of new cases, driven by a nightclub cluster in Seoul's Itaewon district -- including several gay clubs -- forced authorities to delay last week's planned re-opening of schools for a week. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hundreds of South Korea schools close again after reopening

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