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North Korea blew up roads once linking it with South Korea today as tensions on the peninsula rise.
Security cameras captured the moment unused routes went up in smoke, followed by trucks clearing debris.
Across the border from Seoul in the west and near the eastern coast, they were mainly built by South Korea, funded by loans from the US.
Triggering retaliatory fire from South Korea’s military, it signals a break from a long-held ambition to peacefully reunify the two Koreas on the North’s terms.
South Korea, as dictator Kim Jong Un declared in January, is now the North’s ‘invariable principal enemy’.
The two are technically still at war since an armistice ended the Korean War in 1953, but they have mostly co-existed, separated by a border of razor wire and minefields while claiming each other’s territory.
Despite the occasional exchange of fire, and North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, they have maintained informal diplomatic relations in the last 69 years.
But just this year, North Korea has started anti-tank barriers along the border, over which it has sent balloons armed with rubbish and feces.
Source:: Metro
