North Korea blows up roads near South Korean border as tensions soar
According to South Korea’s military, North Korea has destroyed the northern sections of the roads that connect it to South Korea.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced in a message to the media on Tuesday that some of the roads north of the military demarcation line dividing the nations had been destroyed at around noon (03:30 GMT).
The military reportedly fired warning shots south of the demarcation line.
Seoul had hinted on Monday that Pyongyang planned to blow up the roads.
Since North Korea accused its neighbor of flying drones carrying propaganda flyers over Pyongyang, the Korean Peninsula’s capital, has risen in tensions.
Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, convened a meeting with his top military and security officials to discuss the issue the day after the explosions.
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.
In the event that North Korea’s drones were discovered over North Korea, it had previously prepared frontline artillery and other army units to launch attacks on South Korea. South Korea has declined to confirm whether drones were sent, but warned that it would sternly punish North Korea if its citizens’ safety were endangered.
Kim Jong Un wants to cut off ties with South Korea, officially declares it as his country’s top enemy, and abandon North Korea’s decades-long quest for a peaceful Korean unification.
In 2020, North Korea blew up the liaison office for the two Koreas, signalling the end of a period of detente.
After Seoul suspended parts of the joint military agreement in response to Pyongyang’s launch of a military spy satellite, Pyongyang announced in November last year that it would move more troops and military equipment to the border and that it would no longer be bound by a joint military agreement in 2018.
Source: Aljazeera
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