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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 9, 2024, 02:10 PM Oct 9

North Korea to cut off road and rail links to South Korea

North Korea’s army said it will take the “substantial military step” of completely cutting off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border.

The announcement, which comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scrapped a longstanding policy of seeking peaceful reunification with South Korea earlier this year, declared that remaining roads and railways connected to the South would be completely cut, blocking access along the border.

“The acute military situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula requires the armed forces of the DPRK to take a more resolute and stronger measure in order to more creditably defend the national security,” the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) said, according to a notice on state-run news agency KCNA that referred to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Since January, Pyongyang has fortified its border defenses, laying land mines, building anti-tank traps and removing railway infrastructure, according to the South Korean military.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/asia/north-korea-army-militarized-border-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html

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North Korea to cut off road and rail links to South Korea (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 9 OP
North Korea would collapse completely VMA131Marine Oct 9 #1

VMA131Marine

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1. North Korea would collapse completely
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 02:24 PM
Oct 9

if it wasn’t for the Chinese government continuing to prop up Kim Jong Un’s regime.

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