Seoul, June 23 (IANS) A former United Nations Command (UNC) official has said North Korea’s intensified border fencing is not a violation of the Armistice Agreement that halted the 1950-53 Korean War, assessing it as “construction and maintenance activities.” Michael MacArthur Bosack, the former deputy secretary of the UNC Military Armistice Commission, wrote the message on his social media, as North Korean troops have been building the fences very close to the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) se…
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Seoul, May 7 (IANS) South Korea and the United States will hold their high-level defence talks in Washington next week, Seoul’s defence ministry said Thursday, with the wartime Operational Control (OPCON) transfer and access control of the inter-Korean buffer zone expected to top the agenda.The biannual Korea-US Integrated Defence Dialogue (KIDD) will take place from Tuesday through Wednesday (US time), the ministry said in a release.Kim Hong-cheol, Deputy Defence Minister for policy, will lead …
Seoul, Dec 22 (IANS) The South Korean military has internally updated guidelines in defining the inter-Korean land border when dealing with incursions by North Korean soldiers to prevent the risk of accidental clashes, officials said Monday. The move comes as North Korean troops have repeatedly violated the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas since last year in the process of carrying out construction activities near the heavily fortified…