The North Korean military has mined a road in the demilitarized zone leading to its neighbor, South Korea.
The Yonhap agency reported this with reference to a statement by the South Korean military.
TASS, which has read the publication, writes that the mines were installed at the end of last year on a dirt road near Chorwon County.
This road was built as part of the implementation of the 2018 inter-Korean agreement.
The document is aimed at providing the opportunity to jointly search for the remains of the Korean War participants who died in this area.
At the end of 2023, Pyongyang announced that it refused to comply with the agreement in the military sphere (dated September 19, 2018), and then began to again “use military measures.”
The official representative of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea, Lee Sung Jung, included the mining of the road as such measures.
According to him, Seoul will not mine its section of the road.
Prior to this, the same Yonhap agency, citing the South Korean military, reported that the DPRK had mined two roads leading to the cities of Paju and Donghae in South Korea.
It was also reported that Pyongyang dismantled lampposts in that area.
Earlier, Kim Jong-un said that the DPRK would attack South Korea if necessary.
