OAN Staff James Meyers
8:07 AM – Monday, October 14, 2024
North Korea is preparing to blow up roads that cross the militarized border with South Korea, Seoul announced on Monday.
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North Korean troops were camouflaged on the roads on their side of the border near the west and east coasts that are likely preparations to blow up the roads, according to a South Korea military spokesman.
This comes after North Korea accused South Korea on Friday of sending drones to scatter a “huge number” of anti-North leaflets over Pyongyang, in what it called a political and military uprising that could lead to an armed conflict.
Meanwhile Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Monday that the South Korean military was “clearly” to blame for the drone intrusion, and that Washington should be held accountable as well.
“If the sovereignty of a nuclear weapons state was violated by mongrels tamed by Yankees, the master of those dogs should be held accountable for this,” she said via the KCNA state news agency, referring to Seoul and Washington.
The North Korean army stated last week that it would completely cut off roads and railways connected to South Korea and fortify the areas on its side of the border, KCNA reported.
North Korea warned over the weekend of a “horrible disaster” if South Korean drones were again found lying over Pyongyang. On Sunday, it said it had put eight fully armed artillery units at the border on standby to open fire.
South Korea’s military has said its refusal to answer questions on the drones is because addressing what the north has alleged would be to get drawn into a tactic by Pyongyang to fabricate excuses for provocations.
South Korea has sought to strengthen its anti-drone defenses since 2022, when five North Korean drones entered its airspace and flew over the capital, Seoul, for several hours.
Military experts claimed that civilians would have no trouble getting drones with ranges of about 186 miles, the round trip from the South to Pyongyang, with light payloads such as leaflets.
Additionally, experts stated that even if civilians sent drones from the South across the border, it would be a difficult task to complete without the government’s permission or authorities could have failed to detect and block them.
Furthermore, North Korea’s defense ministry said the drones were the type that required a special launcher or a runway and that it was impossible for a civilian group to set them off.
Meanwhile, both sides are actually still at war after their 1950-1953 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
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