North Korean troops have suffered “multiple casualties” from land mine explosions while laying explosives along the country’s heavily armed border with the South in recent months, the South Korean military said Tuesday.
Since January, North Korean soldiers have been setting mines and installing structures that appear to be anti-tank barriers at various locations along the demilitarized zone that splits the Koreas, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff . A number of the North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded by land mine explosions, the JCS said in a statement, without providing more details on the casualties.
The 160-mile-long DMZ was created at the end of the Korean War in 1953, cutting the Korean Peninsula roughly in two under a deal between North Korea and China on one side and the collection of Western allies on the other known as the United Nations Command. But a formal peace treaty was never signed, leaving the two Koreas technically in a state of war.
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