Seoul’s military reported on Tuesday that North Korea had carried out a “counter-fire” operation in response to the destruction of portions of the deeply symbolic roads connecting it to the South.
After spending months constructing anti-tank barriers and laying mines in response to Kim Jong Un’s declaration that the South was his country’s “principal enemy,” Pyongyang’s military last week pledged to permanently seal its southern border.
State media reported on Tuesday that Kim convened a security meeting to direct a plan of “immediate military action” in response to the North’s claim that Seoul was using drones to drop anti-regime propaganda leaflets on Pyongyang.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff stated on Tuesday that “North Korea has detonated parts of the Gyeongui and Donghae roads north of the Military Demarcation Line,” referring to the inter-Korean infrastructure that once connected the two countries.
It went on to say that “our forces conducted counter-fire in areas south of the MDL” and that “our military has not been damaged.”
