The military spokesman said South Korea that North Korean forces It is operating under cover of camouflage on roads on its side of the border near the western and eastern coasts in preparations likely to blow up the roads, perhaps as early as Monday.
Last week, I reported Korean Central News Agency That’s an army north korea He announced that he would completely cut off roads and railways connected to South Korea and would work to fortify areas on his side of the border.
In a separate context, North Korea accused, on Friday, South Korea By sending drones to spread a “large number” of anti-Pyongyang leaflets over Pyongyang, in what it described as a political and military provocation that could lead to armed conflict.
Lee Sung Joon, spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, declined Monday to answer questions about whether the South Korean military or civilians were the ones who launched the drones.
In other statements over the weekend, North Korea warned of a “terrible disaster” if South Korean drones were spotted flying over Pyongyang again. On Sunday, it said that it had placed 8 fully armed artillery units on the border “on alert for firing.”
The two Koreas are still technically at war after their 1950-53 war ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
North Korea reintroduced heavy weapons into the demilitarized border buffer zone and reopened guard points, after the two sides announced that a military agreement concluded in 2018 aimed at easing tensions was no longer valid.
