Activities spotted at North Korea's demolished inter-Korean road site
By Park UngPosted : October 24, 2024, 15:44Updated : October 24, 2024, 15:48
Roads are engulfed in smoke following an explosion, in this footage provided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Oct. 15, 2024.
SEOUL, October 24 (AJP) - North Korea is apparently working on the construction of unidentified structures along the northern part of the inter-Korean roads it blew up last week, military authorities here said on Thursday.
Surveillance equipment along the border areas has detected North Koreans cleaning debris and installing these structures which appear to be walls or concrete barriers.
The demolished roads near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) along the Gyeongui and Donghae lines were built as part of prior inter-Korean projects linking the two Koreas by land amid a thaw in inter-Korean relations.
The Gyeongui line runs from Seoul to the North's Sinuiju on the Chinese border, while the Donghae line connects the east coasts of the two Koreas.
Propaganda leaflets from a trash-filled balloon sent by North Korea are scattered near the presidential office in Yongsan, Seoul on Oct. 24, 2024. Yonhap
Amid the ongoing tensions between the two Koreas, fueled by North Korea's alleged troop deployment to Russia, Pyongyang once again sent a score of trash-filled balloons to the South the same day.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) here said that these balloons, which contained propaganda leaflets blaming President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee, were also found at the presidential compound.