SEOUL: Seoul's military said on Friday (Jun 21) it had fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border in the third such incursion this month.
North Korea n soldiers are seen working at an undisclosed location near the border in this handout photo from the South Korea n military on Jun 18, 2024. SEOUL: Seoul's military said on Friday it had fired warning shots after North Korea n soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border in the third such incursion this month.
The work is likely aimed"as much at keeping their countrymen in as it is at keeping the South Koreans out", he said, but warned that"a lack of inter-Korean communication channels and confidence-building mechanisms increases the danger of escalation in border areas".The move is likely to trigger a response from Pyongyang, which has already sent more than a thousand of its own balloons carrying trash southward.
"It's obvious that something will happen now that they did something we clearly told them not to do," she said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. Activist Park Sang-hak, who defected from North Korea and has been sending anti-regime leaflets north for years, said he floated 20 balloons laden with propaganda as well as flash drives with K-pop and television dramas across the border on Thursday.
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