- California Assembly OKs highest minimum wage in nation
- S. Korea unveils first graphic cigarette warnings
- US joins with South Korea, Japan in bid to deter North Korea
- LPGA golfer Chun In-gee finally back in action
- S. Korea won’t be top seed in final World Cup qualification round
- US men’s soccer misses 2nd straight Olympics
- US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala
- High-intensity workout injuries spawn cottage industry
- CDC expands range of Zika mosquitoes into parts of Northeast
- Who knew? ‘The Walking Dead’ is helping families connect
N. Korea plants landmines in DMZ apparently to prevent soldiers fleeing
SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea has been planting anti-personnel mines alongside the inter-Korean border for the past couple of months to prevent North Korean soldiers from fleeing to South Korea, a South Korean official said Sunday.
“Under the order of leader Kim Jong-un, the military has gone all-out to prevent soldiers from going AWOL across the North Korea-China border,” the official said, adding the deployment of land mines near the inter-Korean border seems to serve a similar purpose.
Last October, the two Koreas exchanged fire after troops from the communist country drew near the border. No one was hurt.
A month later, a North Korean patrol approached the land border again, prompting warning shots from South Korean troops.
The two Koreas have remained technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
North Korean troops seem to have collected some military information near the western, middle and eastern fronts of the Military Demarcation Line for the past two months, the official told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity, adding that South Korea has beefed up its defense against a possible southward intrusion.
North Korean soldiers, mostly in groups of up to 20, are also checking signposts marking the MDL and re-erecting any that have collapsed.
There are nearly 1,300 such signs lining the border, spaced out between 200-300 meters from one another.
Pingback: Newslyne - News » N. Korea plants landmines in DMZ apparently to prevent soldiers fleeing
Pingback: Ten Things You Need To Know: June 15, 2015 | ReadCONTRA
Xombie Rainbow
June 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM
I am looking forward to the day when Little Fatty sends an army of naked, female clones to conquer the west!