SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday blew up sections of the deeply-symbolic roads connecting it to the South, Seoul’s military said, days after Pyongyang vowed to permanently seal off its southern border.
Since leader Kim Jong Un declared the South his country’s “principal enemy” earlier this year, the North has laid fresh mines, erected anti-tank barriers, and deployed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads along the already heavily fortified border. Seoul’s military said it conducted “counter-fire” operations Tuesday near the heavily fortified border with the North after Pyongyang’s military blew up sections of roads linking the two countries.
The military “conducted counter-fire in areas south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL),” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the border that bisects the peninsula. Last week, North Korea accused Seoul of using drones to drop anti-regime propaganda leaflets on the capital Pyongyang, with Kim convening a security meeting to direct a plan of “immediate military action” in response, state media reported Tuesday. –Agencies
