South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots near its heavily fortified border on Tuesday after forces reportedly along the border.
It comes days after the North vowed to .
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Pyongyang “conducted an explosive operation aimed at blocking the connection roads” on Tuesday.
As a response, the South Korean military said it “conducted counter-fire in areas south of the military demarcation line.”
South Korea’s military provided a video that showed a cloud of white and gray smoke emerging from an explosion at a road near the border town of Kaesong. Another video showed smoke emerging from a coastal road near the Korea’s eastern border.
Although the roads and railways connecting the two countries have long been shut down, North Korean state media reported that the new measures were aimed at .
Earlier this year, North Korean leader declared the South his country’s “principal enemy” and since then, the regime has laid fresh mines, erected anti-tank barriers, and deployed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads along the already heavily fortified border.
Kim convenes meetings over drones
On Saturday, North Korea accused of using drones to drop anti-regime propaganda leaflets on the capital Pyongyang. South Korea’s military initially denied deploying the drones but has not commented on the matter since.
The North Korean leader’s influential sister, , warned on Sunday of a “horrible disaster” if more drones are detected.
In response, Kim held a security meeting on Monday in order to be briefed on “the case of enemy’s serious provocation that violated the sovereignty” of North Korea.
The briefing was intended to “set forth the direction of immediate military action,” North Korea’s state-controlled KCNA news agency reported.
jcg/zc (Reuters, AP, dpa)
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