
The deputy head of the department in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea accuses Seoul of numerous provocations and crossing the "red line."
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North and South Korea remain technically at war, and their border is one of the most litarized in the world.
In a statement on Monday carried by the North Korean news agency KCNA, Kim Yo Jong, deputy director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, did not spare harsh words against the South Korean authorities. In her opinion, the situation at the border is "very unstable" due to the "reckless behavior of military gangsters" from South Korea.
According to Pyongyang, South Korean forces regularly fire warning shots at North Korean soldiers working to fortify the border. The "ridiculous pretext" for these actions is the alleged crossing of the demarcation line by the North Korean military.
The North Korean representative accused Seoul of firing 201 warning shots and over 2,800 announcements over border loudspeakers from August to mid-October. Kim Yo Jong stressed that "such hostile provocations, carried out more openly in the wake of the fake 'mine blast farce,' have crossed a red line."
This is how she named the incident of September 21, when three South Korean soldiers were injured in a mine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone. South Korea and the UN Command concluded that the bombs were planted by the North, but Pyongyang accused Seoul of "fabricating" the results of the investigation.
In her statement, Kim Yo Jong announced that the North Korean military command is analyzing the possibility of deploying "additional tactical strike assets" in the border area and resuming broadcasting propaganda messages through loudspeakers placed along the Demilitarized Zone. However, she did not specify what military means were involved.
I declare once again that we do not mince words when it comes to protecting our sovereignty, she said.
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Deployment of additional tactical strike assets in the border area
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