North Korea blows up roads linking it with South, prompting warning shots at border
Roads have long been unused but destroying them sends clear message Pyongyang does not want to negotiate with Seoul, experts say
South Korea has condemned North Korea after it destroyed roads linking the countries on Tuesday, in another blow to bilateral ties on the increasingly tense peninsula.
The South Korean unification ministry, which overseas inter-Korean relations, described the North’s decision to blow up roads on its side of the countries’ heavily armed border as “abnormal” and a violation of bilateral agreements designed to lower tensions.
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