 Later that day, the building in Kaesong, North Korea that had housed liaison talks close to the border with South Korea was blown up by the North Korean government.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Korean delegation had departed from the four-story building in January.On 5 June 2020, the North Korean foreign minister said that prospects for peace between North and South Korea, and the U.S. had "...faded away into a dark nightmare."