Tensions on knife-edge as North Korea sends troops to border and South Korea mobilises air defence weapons
TENSIONS have escalated between North Korea and South Korea as the communist North sends troops to their demilitarised border areas while the South mobilises air defence weapons.
The news, which was reported by state news agency KCNA, would nullify the 2018 deals that ban both Koreas from taking any hostile acts against each other. Police posts that were withdrawn from the Demilitarized Zone will be reinstalled, while artillery units near the western sea border would be reinforced with the alert heightened to the level of “top-class combat duty”, the spokesman said.
However, Kim Jong-un’s sister and government official Kim Yo Jong “flatly rejected the tactless and sinister proposal” according to KCNA.KCNA said: “The solution to the present crisis between the North and the South caused by the incompetence and irresponsibility of the South Korean authorities is impossible and it can be terminated only when the proper price is paid."
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