
AI-generated summary
Relations between North Korea and South Korea have been tense for a long time, and frictions have occurred from time to time near the military demarcation line. The South Korean military has recently conducted military exercises and patrols in the border area, and North Korea has repeatedly accused it of provocative behavior.
China News Service, September 30. According to the Korean Central News Agency's report on the 30th, Kim Yo-jong, Minister of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a statement on the 29th, saying that "the perpetrators of provocations must be mentally prepared to pay the price for directing and acting in their own dramas."
According to reports, Kim Yo-jung said in his speech that recently, a landmine explosion occurred along the southern border, and the South Korean military once again used this to provoke North Korea.
Kim Yo-jong pointed out that this was a "low-level and clumsy performance" that could only be staged by South Korea. "This farce is nothing new." South Korea shirks the responsibility for the landmine explosion on North Korea and attempts to fabricate "physical evidence" to prove it. "This approach is pure nonsense and nonsense."
Kim Yo-jong said that he has repeatedly witnessed the "weird actions" the South Korean military has recently done along the southern border, and North Korea is paying close attention to why it needs to create this "landmine incident" now. Moreover, its provocative actions near the southern border are increasingly crossing red lines.
Kim Yo-jong warned that South Korea's "self-directed and self-acted actions" will not have good results, and "responsibility for all consequences will be borne entirely by the party planning the provocation."
According to a report by Yonhap News Agency on the 21st, citing sources from the South Korean military, the 25th Division of the South Korean Army was performing tasks in the demilitarized zone on the South Korean side near the military demarcation line between South Korea and North Korea. A suspected landmine explosion occurred, injuring three people, two of whom were seriously injured. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung asked the military to quickly find out the truth on the 29th and said that the government will take necessary measures depending on the results of the investigation.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
North Korea will step up surveillance of South Korea's military movements and may take countermeasures
Likely · Within weeks
South Korea's military will step up investigation into landmine explosions and may strengthen border defenses
Likely · Within days

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