North Korea registers “casualties” after landmine explosion in demilitarized zone
A landmine detonation in the border area between North Korea and South Korea has caused “numerous casualties” in the North Korean ranks, according to local media reported this Tuesday.
Vladimir Putinpresident of Russia, I was going to visit the North Korean capitalPyongyang, for the first time since 2000. Hours before this visit, explosions were reported in the demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Hay “victims“due to the explosion of land mines, according to the South Korean Yonhap agency, and several soldiers “maimed or dead”“, according to the NK News website.
Since the 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, but not a peace treaty, The demilitarized zone has separated the two Koreas by a strip of 4 km wide that is strewn with land mines.
These are so that the enemy troops do not raid that could alter the delicate border balance that has been maintained for decades.
The explosions have caused injuries among North Korean troops, who They worked on creating “wastelands” and laying more mines along the border, according to a JCS official who has not revealed the date of the incident.
This Tuesday morning, between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers, loaded with tools, crossed the Military Demarcation Line that divides both countries, according to Yonhap citing the JCS, but they withdrew after warnings and emergency shots from southern troops.
In recent weeks, the North has sent more than 1,000 balloons loaded with garbage to the Southwhere the activists responded with others containing anti-North Korean pamphlets and USB drives loaded with K-pop and television series, within the framework of the growing tension between Pyongyang and Seoul.
