SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea says it will sever all ties and communication with Seoul as punishment for what it calls a “smear campaign” over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency quoted the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as saying late Tuesday that Pyongyang would also expel all South Koreans working at a joint industrial park in the border town of Kaesong.
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