South Korea has confirmed that he fired warning shots earlier for the week to North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the border very fortified between the two countries.
North Korea’s media called the shots a “deliberate provocation” and Pyongyang accused Seoul of risking “uncontrollable” tensions.
The incident became public as the new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, left Seoul on Saturday for a visit to Tokyo and Washington.
Pyongyang has increased the bet in recent weeks, with the sister of leader Kim Jong a rejection of efforts towards reconciliation made by the Lee government.
The warning shots in the North Korean troops took place amid continuous work since last year to permanently seal its border with the south.
A strip of nobody called the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separates the north and south, with intrusions often increasing tensions. The DMZ edge is not surrounded and the signs darken by dense vegetation.
South Korean team chiefs (JCS) said in a statement that some North Korea troops that work in the border region crossed the military demarcation line between the two countries around 15:00 local time in Seoul on Tuesday (07:00 BST).
The soldiers later moved north of the line, the JCS added.
The North Korean army, Lieutenant General Ko Jong Chol, said the Seoul Army used a machine gun to shoot more than 10 warning shots towards their soldiers, according to state media.
“This is a very serious prelude that would inevitably lead the situation in the area of ​​the southern border, where a large number of forces are parked in confrontation with each other to the uncontrollable phase,” he added.
Pyongyang has been derogatory for Seoul despite the June victory of Lee, who had campaigned to improve ties between Koreans.
The South Korean army later said that month that had suspended its speaker propaganda transmissions through the North Korea border, as part of an attempt to “restore confidence” between the two parties.
Pyongyang believes that speaker propaganda transmits an act of war and has threatened to fly them in the past.
The two Koreas have been divided since the Korean War ended in 1953.
They did not sign a peace treaty and, therefore, have still remained technically at war since then, although years have passed since any of the others bombarded the other.
(BBC)
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