North Korea has blown up sections of an inter-Korean road on its side of the heavily militarized border between the two Koreas, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday.
At around midday, some parts of the road north of the military demarcation line dividing the countries were blown up, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a message sent to media.
South Korea's military had ramped up surveillance and its readiness in response, it said. Seoul had warned on Monday that Pyongyang was getting ready to blow up the roads.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been increasing amid an escalating war of words after the North accused its rival of sending drones over the country's capital Pyongyang.
North Korea on Friday said the drones had scattered a "huge number" of anti-North leaflets over the city, in what it called political and military provocation that could lead to armed conflict.
A spokesman for the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff declined on Monday to answer questions over whether the South Korean military or civilians had flown the alleged drones.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had overseen on Monday a meeting with defense and security officials to discuss how to respond to the "enemy's serious provocation that violated the sovereignty of the DPRK", state media KCNA reported.DPRK is short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.
© Thomson Reuters 2024.
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Zaphod
Was that road used at all? Reminds me of his sister blowing up the building for Korean communication for show.
nandakandamanda
They just shot themselves in the foot.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Just makes it that much harder for any aid to reach the starving Norks.
finally rich
If you watch these "we'll never be friends again" type of demolitions you will see they don't just tear down the building in a civilized way, they rather use the max. explosion power available with minimum protection to make everything literally blow up in the air, it's a big show to draw the maximum attention from the South.
Kim dinasty is completely demented.
lincolnman
Seems every time Kim has a temper tantrum, he either blow up some of his own sea life, his own buildings, or now his own road...
Keep aggravating him, maybe he'll nuke Pyongyang...
Zaphod
TaiwanIsNotChina
The Norks are not starving now, as they obviously have a profitable deal with Russia to manufacture arms in exchange for resources, thanks to the American proxy war. This is just Kim's usual theatrics: Look dangerous and crazy and stay in the spotlight.
Zaphod
finally rich
Nobody who is demented can stay on top of a ruthless power pyramid in a dictatorship for so long. Kim knows exactly what he is doing.
WoodyLee
What will happen if N. Korea did the same???