The G7 ministers had called for China to “reconsider this decision” in a statement on Wednesday, saying they had “grave concerns” about the law threatening Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms.
The two zones are sites of long-shuttered joint inter-Korean projects: Southern tourists visited the scenic Mount Kumgang until a North Korean soldier in 2008 shot dead a woman who strayed off the path.
China’s defence ministry confirmed late Tuesday that there had been casualties, without giving a number, while state media stayed relatively quiet on the skirmish, the most violent in years.
The liaison office was opened in September 2018, days before the South’s President Moon Jae-in flew to Pyongyang for his third summit with Kim.
Police were investigating reports “about vigilante groups possibly instigating this violence,” city police chief Michael Geier said in a Twitter statement.
Paul Whelan, 50, has been held in a Moscow jail since his arrest in December 2018 and his trial was held behind closed doors because of the accusations of seeking to obtain state secrets.
The plane took off from the RAF Lakenheath base, near Mildenhall, in Suffolk, which hosts the 48th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force.
The award-winning former CNN journalist faces up to six years behind bars in the culmination of a case that has drawn international concern.
Nepal imposed a nationwide lockdown in March in a bid to halt the spread of the pandemic. It currently has 5,062 cases of COVID-19, with 16 deaths.
The new cases have prompted worries about the safety of the food supply chain and some other markets in the city have also been closed.
