Seoul Says North Korea Rebuilding Guard Posts, Placing Firearms Along Border

Published on November 28, 2023

South Korea’s defense ministry said on Monday that North Korea has begun rebuilding guard posts and deploying firearms along the border as tensions rise following the North’s recent spy satellite launch. The ministry said it detected movements indicating the reconstruction of North Korean guard posts on Nov. 24, just a day after Pyongyang vowed to restore “all military measures” previously halted under a 2018 inter-Korean accord. South Korean defense officials disclosed photographs depicting North Korean troops installing guard posts equipped with what appeared to be recoilless guns along the border, Yonhap News Agency reported. “Before destroying the [guard posts], there were observation posts, and they are presumed to be rebuilding them. It was made of white wood and painted with a camouflage pattern,” a defense official told reporters....

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