CHEORWON, South Korea, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –After a 15-minute bumpy ride along a dusty, hilly path inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), dozens of South Korean troops in full gear disembarked near a grisly site of intense battles during the 1950-53 Korean War. Accompanying them in the buffer zone separating the two Koreas was a [...]
PAJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Soldiers from the South Korean Army’s 1st Infantry Division held a ceremonial event entitled ‘Remember 804’ at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju to mark the first anniversary of the North Korean landmine attack on August 4, 2015, which left two South Korean soldiers severely wounded. “You may forget about us, but [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military said Wednesday that it has found nearly 260 wooden-box North Korean landmines washed up along the inter-Korean border region between 2010 through 2015. The military said it counted 259 landmines that were presumably buried by the North but were swept away due to heavy rains [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is believed to have almost doubled the number of landmines it has planted in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that bisects the two Koreas this year from the previous year, South Korean military officials said Sunday. Since April, the North has placed more than 4,000 new landmines in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The search/reconnaissance operations of South Korean troops in the DMZ will be taking on more aggressive tactics. Before, the rules of engagement were ‘verbal warning, warning shot, aimed shot’, but now, it will be simplified to just ‘aimed shot’. Officials from the Ministry of National Defense (MND) say that they will change [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – After a serious landmine incident in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), which resulted in severe injuries to two South Korean staff sergeants, the problem of mines in Korea is surfacing again. In the DMZ, a buffer zone between the military forces of the two Koreas, more than one million landmines (officially) [...]