South Korean forces conducted drills this week on an island near the demilitarized zone. Photo: Defense Ministry/Zuma PressSEOUL—A key symbol of a brief period of detente on the Korean Peninsula half a decade ago is now gone. This week, North and South Korea suspended an inter-Korean military agreement struck in 2018 to reduce the risk of conflict along the shared border. A liaison office, also dating to that period, was blown up by North Korea in 2020, and any hopes of resurrecting that era’s denuclearization talks have disappeared in a hail of missile launches by Pyongyang.

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Persons: era’s denuclearization Organizations: Defense Ministry, Zuma Press Locations: South Korea, North Korea, Pyongyang