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Lee was born on June 1, 1928, in Kaesong, present-day North Korea, the youngest of seven children.

South Koreans’ security anxieties have long been kept in check by the U.S.-South Korea alliance and by past inter-Korean projects such as South Korean tours to the Diamond Mountain resort and the jointly operated Kaesong factory park, said Han-Wool Jeong, director of the Korea People Research Institute.

The most spectacular fit of pique came in 2020, when North Korean military engineers blew up a South Korea-funded liaison office — its operations had been suspended and nobody was inside — established outside the North Korean town of Kaesong.

The law, crafted by the previous liberal government in Seoul that pursued inter-Korean engagement, was passed six months after the North expressed its frustration over the leaflets by blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong in June 2020.

The law passed in December 2020, six months after the North expressed its displeasure over the leaflets by blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong.