Land Mine Explodes at DMZ During Military Op over Suspected North Korean Minefield: South Korea
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The suspected landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the western front on the 21st appears to have occurred during the process of creating a search route to verify a suspected minefield planted by North Korea across the Military Demarcation Line (Armistice Line). Jang Do-young, Director of Public Affairs at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), stated at a regular briefing on the 22nd, “Yesterday in the DMZ
South Korean soldiers were seriously injured in a suspected landmine explosion while clearing a search route in the Western Front Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to verify the possibility of North Korean landmines being planted. Military authorities, having identified changes in the terrain by North Korean forces, were originally scheduled to conduct an on-site investigation with the United Nations Command next week, and the accident occurred while the…
Yesterday, three South Korean soldiers sustained serious injuries in a suspected landmine explosion within the front-line Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) near the Army's 25th Division. At the time of the accident, they were clearing a search path to verify a suspected area where North Korean mines had crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL).
A suspected land mine explosion at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) occurred earlier this week during the military's route clearance operation to look into a potential minefield that might have been created by North Korean troops, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Tuesday. The explosion occurred south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in the western sector of the DMZ, separating the two Koreas, on Monday, leaving three military officers inju…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Kim Hyo-jeong and Kim Cheol-seon = A landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that occurred on the 21st at a frontline unit of the Army's 25th Division, which oversees the western front...
[TV Chosun] (Anchor) As you can see, the possibility that it was a "North Korean landmine" is constantly being raised, but for some reason the South Korean military seems to be avoiding even mentioning this possibility. Yesterday, they effectively drew a line by saying that the accident site and the North Korean military's landmine planting site were "far apart," but the new Minister of National Defense gave a different explanation in one day. W…
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