North Korea tells border troops to take ‘resolute action’ if South threatens their safety朝鲜指示边防部队，如果韩国威胁到他们的安全，则采取“坚决行动”。
North Korea has told its border troops to take “prompt and resolute action” if South Korean forces threaten their safety, state media said on Wednesday, raising the risk of a clash along the heavily armed frontier.
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North Korea has told its border troops to take “prompt and resolute action” if South Korean forces threaten their safety, state media said on Wednesday, raising the risk of a clash along the heavily armed frontier.
The report came a day after Seoul pledged to punish “resolutely” any further provocation by Pyongyang if North Korea acted on threats to strengthen its military posture along the border.
North Korean Army Marshal Pak Jong Chon inspected fortifications on the border with South Korea on Tuesday, accompanied by Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, KCNA reported.
Kim Yo Jong said new firepower units had “taken their firing positions” at the border, KCNA reported.
Tensions between North and South Korea have risen since Pyongyang began fortifying its border in April 2024. The two countries are separated by the Demilitarized Zone that was established when the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953.
Seoul says Pyongyang has sent up to 7,000 workers to the border this year, with about 50 crossings of the Military Demarcation Line, which bisects the DMZ, to South Korea’s side of the border.
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On Wednesday, North Korea rejected Seoul’s allegations, with Pak dismissing the claim as an “absurd assertion” designed to shift blame, KCNA reported.
The North Korean army knew where the border lay “better than any others” and was only doing what it should within its own territory, Pak said, urging soldiers to turn the border into an “impregnable fortress.”
South Korea said North Korean mines caused a border blast last month that seriously wounded two of its soldiers, and called on Pyongyang to suspend the fortification work.
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朝鲜官方媒体周三报道称，朝鲜已指示其边防部队，如果韩国军队威胁到他们的安全，则要采取“迅速而坚决的行动”，这增加了在戒备森严的边境地区发生冲突的风险。
这份报告发布的前一天，首尔方面承诺，如果朝鲜采取任何进一步的挑衅行动，加强其在边境的军事部署，首尔将“坚决”予以惩罚。
据朝中社报道，朝鲜人民军元帅朴正全周二视察了朝韩边境的防御工事，陪同人员包括朝鲜领导人金正恩的妹妹金与正。
据朝中社报道，金与正表示，新的火力部队已在边境“就位”。
自2024年4月平壤开始加强其边境防御以来，朝韩之间的紧张局势不断升级。两国之间以非军事区为界，该非军事区是在1953年朝鲜战争以停战协定结束时设立的。
首尔方面表示，平壤今年已向边境地区派遣了多达 7000 名工人，约有 50 人越过军事分界线（该分界线将非军事区一分为二），进入韩国一侧的边境。
这对朝鲜兄弟花了十年时间策划逃亡。然而，获得自由几个月后，一切都改变了。
据朝中社报道，周三，朝鲜驳斥了首尔的指控，朴正熙称这一说法是“荒谬的断言”，旨在推卸责任。
朴先生说，朝鲜军队比任何人都更清楚边界在哪里，他们只是在自己的领土内做他们应该做的事情，并敦促士兵们将边界变成一座“坚不可摧的堡垒”。
韩国方面表示，朝鲜地雷上个月在边境引发爆炸，导致两名韩国士兵重伤，并呼吁平壤暂停防御工事建设工作。