At noon local time on Tuesday, certain sections of roads and railways leading to South Korea were blown up in North Korea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. Reuters according to his report. In response, the South Korean military fired warning shots south of the Military Demarcation Line, although the explosions caused no damage on the Seoul side of the border.
The North Korean military announced on October 9 that it would completely cut off roads and railways connecting the country to South Korea and strengthen areas on its side of the border. They said:
this is a response to South Korean military exercises and the frequent appearance of American strategic nuclear weapons in the region.
I Songjun, the spokesman for the South Korean army, subsequently warned on October 14 that North Korea was preparing to blow up the roads connecting the two countries, near its eastern and western coasts, on its own territory in the demilitarized zone along the border.
According to South Korea’s JCS, North Korea has already planted mines and obstacles on the border, and on Monday they saw more work being done with heavy machinery. South Korea subsequently increased its readiness.
Anti-North political propaganda materials
It’s worth mentioning that a South Korean military spokesman declined to answer a question on Monday about North Korea’s announcement over the weekend. Pyongyang claimed on Saturday that South Korea had flown drones into the airspace of the North Korean capital on Friday that had dispersed a large number of anti-North political propaganda materials. The spokesman said they were not commenting on the claim so that North Korea could not use their response as a possible reason for another provocation. However, I Songjun did not deny that South Korea has significantly strengthened its air defense capacity in the past two years, as seven North Korean drones flew in and stayed in Seoul’s airspace for several hours in 2022.
According to a statement issued on Monday by the daughter of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un and quoted by the state news agency KCNA, it is “clear” that the South’s military and the United States are behind the drones. He assessed the action as a violation of his country’s sovereignty, to which North Korea responded by placing eight armed artillery units on standby in the border area.
As you know, the two Koreas are still effectively at war after their 1950-53 war ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
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