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A court in Seoul ordered North Korea to pay $32.5 million in damages for destroying the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in June 2020, which Pyongyang blew up amid rising tensions with the South. The office had served as a key communication channel between the two Koreas. The ruling is largely symbolic given North Korea's refusal to recognize South Korean legal jurisdiction, but it underscores the lingering unresolved damages from the incident, which marked a low point in inter-Korean relations.