South Korea fires warning to the troops of North crossing the border

South Korea has confirmed that it has shot warning earlier in the week with North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the highly fortified border between the two countries.

The North Korean state media qualified the shots of “deliberate provocation” and Pyongyang accused Seoul of risking “uncontrollable” tensions.

The incident was made public while the new South Korean president Lee Jae Myung left Seoul on Saturday for a visit to Tokyo and Washington.

Pyongyang has increased the launch in recent weeks, with the sister of leader Kim Jong a rejecting efforts towards the reconciliation made by the government of Lee.

The incident took place in the middle of the continuous work in North Korea since last year to definitively seal its border with the South.

A strip of no-man land called the demilitarized area (DMZ) separates northern and south, intrusions often increasing tensions. The DMZ border is not fenced and the panels are obscured by dense vegetation.

The chiefs of the South Korea joint Staff (JCS) said in a statement that certain North Korean troops working in the border region had crossed the military demarcation line between the two countries at 3:00 p.m. local time in Seoul on Tuesday (07:00 BST).

The soldiers then returned to the north of the line, added the JCS.

According to the state media, the lieutenant of the North Korean army of General Ko Jong Chol said that the Army of Seoul had used a machine gun to draw more than 10 warnings towards his soldiers, according to the state media.

“This is a very serious prelude that would inevitably lead the situation in the southern borders area where a large number of forces park in confrontation with each other in the uncontrollable phase,” said state media.

Pyongyang rejected Seoul despite Lee’s electoral victory, which campaigned to improve inter -corn.

The Army of South Korea later declared this month that it had suspended its loudspeaker propaganda emissions through the border against North Korea, as part of an attempt to “restore confidence” between the two parties.

Pyongyang considers that the propaganda of the speakers diffuses an act of war and has threatened to explode them in the past.

The two Koreas have been divided since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

They did not sign a peace treaty and therefore remained technically still at war since, even if it has been years since both sides have bombed the other.