North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean roads, amid rising tensions over the North’s claim that South Korea flew drones over its capital.

South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots near its heavily fortified border on Tuesday after North Korean forces reportedly destroyed roads along the border.

It comes days after the North vowed to permanently seal off its southern border.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Maybe they’re sending everything to Ukraine and just want to make sure the South doesn’t get any idea

    /jk

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      18 days ago

      I’m not even sure if that is a joke. If they’ve sold a lot to Russia and are paranoid about the south exploiting their relative weakness, removing road links would make sense.

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      18 days ago

      South Korea doesn’t want to invade. The costs of rehabilitating the North Korean people would be crippling.

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      18 days ago

      I unironically think that that’s NK’s logic here, despite the fact that there’s an approximately 0% chance SK would EVER launch an unprovoked invasion of the north.