South Korea blames North Korean mines for border blast injuries and demands apology
- On Monday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded that North Korean mines planted south of the Military Demarcation Line caused the September 21 explosion, severely injuring three South Korean soldiers.
- Since April 2024, North Korea has fortified the border by deploying up to 7000 workers to install fences and mines, resulting in approximately 50 incidents of border crossings.
- Forensic analysis of TNT and thermosetting resin components identified the device as a North Korean-made plastic anti-personnel mine, according to Kwon Dae-won, vice chairman of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- While Seoul's military urged the North to "immediately remove the mines" and apologize, Pyongyang's Kim Yo-jong dismissed the accusation as "groundless," denying responsibility for blasts violating the Armistice Agreement.
- The DMZ remains one of the world's most heavily armed borders, with an estimated 2 million mines littering the zone, creating persistent risks of military clashes between the two Koreas technically at war.
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South Korean officials and the United Nations concluded their investigation into a landmine detonating in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) last month, stating that the mine was secretly planted by North Korea sometime last year.
South Korea blames North Korean mines for border blast injuries and demands apology
South Korea’s military said Monday it concluded North Korea planted mines that injured three South Korean soldiers at their heavily fortified border last month, urging the North to apologize and remove other mines.
North Korean mines ‘deliberately buried’ south of border caused blasts, ROK says
South Korea’s military has concluded that plastic, North Korean anti-personnel mines “deliberately buried” south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) caused the Sept. 21 blasts that injured three ROK troops, announcing the final results of a joint investigation with the U.N. Command (UNC). At a briefing on Monday, the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) […]
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