S. Korea blames North for mine blast, threatens 'harsh' response
Source: Yahoo! News / AFP
Seoul (AFP) - South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting landmines that maimed two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring as it threatened to make Pyongyang pay a "harsh price".
The Defence Ministry said it believed three landmines exploded in the incident last Tuesday, hitting a patrol in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) -- a buffer zone stretching two kilometres on either side of the actual frontier line dividing the two Koreas.
"We are certain they were North Korean landmines planted with an intention to kill by our enemies who sneaked across the military border," ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters.
One soldier underwent a double leg amputation, while the other had one leg removed.
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I know that the soldiers do a patrol along the fence and it sounds like that it where it happened. Usually they are watching for people trying to cross and to look where holes might have been cut in the fence. My guess is this happened at night as well which would have been the most difficult time to detect a landmine.
Here is a picture from the article:
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