According to to North Korea state media, the structure was “completely destroyed” in the “terrific explosion.” In taking responsibility for the bombing, North Korea said its “enraged people” were determined to “force (the) human scum and those, who have sheltered the scum, to pay dearly for their crimes,” seemingly referring to North Korean defectors floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border in recent years. Officials in North Korea allege the brochures are in violation of a deal between leader Kim Jong-Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in — initially laid out during the first inter-Korea summit in 2018, when both leaders agreed to cease “all hostile acts and eliminating their means, including broadcasting through loudspeakers and distribution of leaflets” along the border.