The crisis that is coming with North Korea and South Korea is inevitable and it is just a matter of time. Both have extraordinary differences, one side has some morals the other side is willing to do anything to destroy those morals and reclaim the land. A simple situation can blow into a bigger one within minutes.
South Korea vows ‘harsh’ response.
South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting land mines that injured two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean Peninsula soaring as South Korea threatened to make Pyongyang pay a “harsh price.” The Defense Ministry said it believed three land mines exploded in the incident last Tuesday, hitting a patrol in the demilitarized zone — a buffer zone stretching about a mile on either side of the actual frontier line dividing the two Koreas.
We are certain they were North Korean land mines planted with an intention to kill by our enemies who sneaked across the military border.
South Korea Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok
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One soldier underwent a double leg amputation, while the other had one leg removed. In a statement, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said its military would make North Korea “pay a harsh price proportionate for the provocation it made.” Describing the attack as a “baseless act” and “wanton violation” of nonaggression accords, the statement urged North Korea to apologize for the attack and punish those responsible.
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to have masterminded the bloody explosion of land mines in the demilitarized zone last week, the Defense Ministry said Monday, in the latest military provocation by the North, happening just weeks before a scheduled joint military exercise between South Korea and the U.S.
The mine blasts took place on the morning of Aug. 4 on the southern side of the DMZ near the city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, while eight South Korean Army troops carried out a regular scouting mission there. The explosion severed the legs of two staff sergeants.
North Korean wooden-box mines were the cause of the blast, said Army Brig. Gen. Ahn Young-ho, who headed a joint probe into the incident, referring to mine debris found in the site.
“It is clear the enemy has deliberately laid the mines with an intention to inflict harm on our operational forces,” Ahn said. “The explosives are clearly wooden-box mines that the North Korean army is using.”
The design and types of the wood cases, three spring parts and the Trinitrotoluene explosive material, or TNT, found at the explosion site were cited as evidence supporting the conclusion.
The North Korean plot may be intended to derail the upcoming Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), the annual war simulation exercise scheduled to take place next week between South Korea and the U.S. to prepare for a potential incursion by North Korea, an official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
“It seems to be aimed at interrupting the scheduled implementation of UFG by obscuring who did the provocation and spurring discord inside South Korea over it,” the JCS official said.
The Paju border area is also where the two Koreas exchanged machine gun rounds last October after South Korean activists launched anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into the North Korean side.
He likened the latest blast to the North’s deadly torpedoing of the South Korean Navy Corvette Cheonan in March 2010. North Korea has not yet accepted responsibility for the torpedo attack, despite much evidence showing otherwise.
Source: N. Korea behind recent mine explosion in DMZ: Defense Ministry
N. Korea behind recent mine explosion in DMZ: Defense Ministry
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