Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, a move that has previously been criticised by South Korea and China, which view the shrine as a symbol of Japan's militaristic past.

South Korea voiced "deep regret" Thursday after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to a war shrine in Tokyo seen as a symbol of its militaristic past. Japanese media reported that Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine in celebration of the autumn festival,

In a move that underlines North Korea's growing anger with South Korea, North Korea has blown up sections of unused rail routes and roads that once connected the two countries.

North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use on Tuesday, South Korea said, after the rivals exchanged threats of destruction amid rising animosities over North Korea’s claim that South Korea flew drones over its capital.

STORY: North Korea destroyed sections of roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas on Tuesday...... in what South Korean officials have called a "highly abnormal" act and a violation of past inter-Korean agreements.