News Mania / Piyal Chatterjee / 14th October 2024
In the midst of an increasingly heated verbal exchange after the North accused its neighbor of flying drones over Pyongyang, the North is preparing to blow up highways that traverse the heavily militarized border with South Korea, Seoul announced on Monday. According to a military official for South Korea, North Korean personnel were operating under covert conditions on the highways on its side of the border close to the east and west coasts. These operations are probably part of their plans to blow up the roadways, potentially as soon as Monday.
In the midst of an increasingly heated verbal exchange after the North accused its neighbor of flying drones over Pyongyang, the North is preparing to blow up highways that traverse the heavily militarized border with South Korea, Seoul announced on Monday.
In a related development, North Korea charged on Friday that South Korea had employed drones to drop a “huge number” of anti-North leaflets above Pyongyang, calling this a military and political provocation that might result in war.The drones were flown by South Koreans, military personnel or civilians? That was a question that South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Lee Sung-jun failed to address on Monday.
North Korea issued more threats over the weekend, threatening to unleash a “horrible disaster” if it was discovered that South Korean drones were once more flying above Pyongyang. It announced on Sunday that eight fully armed artillery battalions were stationed along the border and were “on standby to open fire.”
The military of South Korea has stated that it will not respond to inquiries regarding the drones because doing so would allow Pyongyang to continue its strategy of inventing justifications for provocations.
Since five North Korean drones invaded South Korea’s airspace and hovered over the country’s capital, Seoul, for several hours in 2022, the country has worked to strengthen its anti-drone defenses, according to Lee. Expert in military drone operations at Jungwon University Lee Kyoung-haing predicted that citizens would have no trouble obtaining drones with light payloads like leaflets, as long as they have a round-trip range of 300 km (186 miles), which is the distance between Pyongyang and the South.
North Korea’s defense ministry claimed on Sunday that the drones, which it claimed were seen over Pyongyang for three days earlier this month, were of a type that needed a runway or specialized launcher to be launched, making it impossible for a civilian organization to do so.
