North Korean land mines could be swept into South Korea by swelling rivers, South Korea’s military warned Wednesday, as the North places tens of thousands of the deadly explosives along its heavily fortified border.
In this undated photo provided on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, by the South Korea Defense Ministry, North Korea n soldiers work at an undisclosed location near the border area, as seen from a South Korea n guard area. North Korea n land mines could be swept into South Korea by flooding, South Korea ’s military warned Wednesday after the North has recently placed tens of thousands of additional deadly explosives along the rivals’ heavily fortified border.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told local reporters that flooding caused by summer rainfall could wash the mines over the border, adding that North Korea might also deliberately float mines downriver as a provocation.
It’s not unusual for wooden North Korean mine boxes to wash downriver in summer, causing deadly incidents in South Korea. A 2015 mine explosion blamed on North Korea maimed two South Korean soldiers and pushed the rivals to the brink of an armed conflict. North Korea is extremely sensitive to South Korean activists’ efforts to scatter anti-Pyongyang leaflets, seeing them as a threat its political system and a challenge to its ban on access to foreign news for most of its 26 million people, experts say.on its territory in a furious response to South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns. In 2014, North Korea fired at balloons flying toward its territory and South Korea returned fire, though there were no casualties.
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