North Korea issues fresh warning of retaliatory strikes against South
Tensions high around border after shots fired earlier this week by South Korean troops following incursion by patrol from the North
North Korea on Saturday warned of retaliatory strikes days after South Korea fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol near the border.
South Korean troops on Monday fired warning shots as the North’s patrol approached the military demarcation line (MDL) that designates the border, but there was no exchange of fire and the group eventually turned back.
“The South Korean puppet military warmongers should be mindful that such reckless military provocations in the area of MDL may invite unforeseeable retaliation strikes, which will immediately lead to a great war of justice for national reunification”, the Front Command of the North’s military said.
“If they continue the military provocation despite our warning, they will have to pay at the cost of their blood.”
“If they continue the military provocation despite our warning, they will have to pay at the cost of their blood.”
There have been a series of minor skirmishes, involving exchanges of fire but no casualties, along the inter-Korean land and sea borders in recent months.
The two Koreas are still technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
The Korean peninsula is divided by a 4-kilometre-wide band known as the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that runs 248 kilometres from east to west.
