SEOUL: South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, Seoul's military said on Tuesday (Jun 11), with tensions high over Pyongyang's trash-
South Korea n soldiers lock a gate at a guard post near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea , Jun 17, 2020. SEOUL: South Korea n troops fired warning shots after North Korea n soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, Seoul's military said on Tuesday , with tensions high over
"Some North Korean soldiers working within the Demilitarised Zone on the central front briefly crossed the Military Demarcation Line ," the JCS said in a statement, referring to the line of control between the two Koreas. "The situation at that time was that the DMZ was now overgrown with trees and the MDL mark was not clearly visible," Lee said.
The North has also been seen removing street lights from the few roads that once connected the two Koreas in recent months as well as apparently demolishing sections of the inter-Korean railway, the Yonhap news agency has reported.The incursion of the North Korean soldiers could be a"small provocation" to test the waters ahead of a bigger move, Ahn Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP.
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