North Korea has launched an all-out assault on numerous roads that still connect the Hermit Kingdom to South Korea. It also fired warning shots across the demarcation line. Seoul anticipated the action, having warned the world a few days earlier that North Korea was preparing to take this action.
North Korea blows up roads near South Korean border as tensions soar | Military News– www.aljazeera.com
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North Korea has blown up the northern sections of the roads that connect it to South Korea, according to South Korea’s military.
Some parts of the road north of the military demarcation line dividing the countries were blown up at about midday (03:00 GMT), the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a message sent to media on Tuesday.
The military fired warning shots south of the demarcation line, it said.
Seoul had warned on Monday that Pyongyang was preparing to blow up the roads.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have risen since North Korea accused its neighbour of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets over the country’s capital Pyongyang.
The explosions came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a meeting with his top military and security officials to discuss the issue.
During the meeting, Kim described the flights as the “enemy’s serious provocation” and laid out unspecified tasks related to “immediate military action” and the operation of his “war deterrent” for defending the country’s sovereignty, North Korean state media reported earlier on Tuesday.
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