North Korea blows up the north section of unused roads once linked to the South, with the rivals exchanging threats days after the North claimed that its rival flew drones over its capital, Pyongyang.
South Korea has condemned the North's detonations as a "highly abnormal" and "regressive" measure that violates previous inter-Korean agreements. North Korea 's state media reported Kim Jong Un had laid out unspecified tasks related to "immediate military action" and the operation of his war deterrent.
South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles affairs with North Korea, has separately condemned the North's detonations as a "highly abnormal" and "regressive" measure that violates previous inter-Korean agreements. In 2020, North Korea blew up an empty, South Korean-built liaison office building just north of the border in retaliation for South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.
That order surprised many North Korea watchers because it seemed to break from his predecessors' long-cherished dreams of peacefully unifying the Korean Peninsula on the North's terms. South Korea has refused to confirm whether it sent drones but warned that North Korea would face the end of its regime if the safety of South Korean citizens is threatened.
During a previous era of inter-Korean ease of hostility in the 2000s, the two Koreas reconnected two road routes and two rail tracks across their heavily fortified border. But their operations were suspended as the Koreas wrangled over North Korea's nuclear program and other issues.
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