The largely symbolic move by Kim Jong Un's regime threatens to bring a new wave of escalations to the tumultuous North-South border.
North Korea has blown up parts of roads and railway lines heading for the border dividing the peninsula, according to South Korea's military.Pyongyang 'conducted detonations' that Seoul believes were attempts to cut off transport routes linking North Korea to the South at around noon local time, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement reported by local media on Tuesday.
treaty allies in the region, have expressed grave concerns about the North's military activity—repeated missile tests and an opaque nuclear program. Calling the moves a severe threat to their national security, both have turned to the United States for additional support, angering Pyongyang in the process.North Korea also has drawn closer to Russia, already a pariah for many Western countries after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.
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