North Korea confirms it has completely closed roads and railways connecting its southern border with South Korea

On the 17th, a reporter from the Central Broadcasting Station learned from the North Korean Ministry of Defense that North Korea has completely sealed off the roads and railways connecting the southern border area to South Korea.

According to a spokesperson from the North Korean Ministry of Defense, on the afternoon of the 15th, North Korea used explosives to entirely block the roads and railways in the areas of Gamhuri in Gangwon Province and the Dongnae area in the Kaesong region.

Reports indicate that these explosive measures have physically severed the roads and railways on the North Korean side that connected to South Korea. This action was taken as a legal measure in accordance with North Korea’s constitution, which designates South Korea as a “thoroughly hostile nation,” responding to extreme political and military provocations from what they perceive as hostile forces that have escalated tensions to a war-like state.

A spokesperson from North Korea’s Ministry of Land and Environment Protection stated that the explosions did not negatively impact the surrounding ecological environment, and as a result, the connection between North and South Korea has been completely severed.

The Defense Ministry also emphasized that North Korea will continue to fortify the closed southern border permanently.

Additionally, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in South Korea reported that on the 15th, around noon, North Korea detonated explosives on sections of the Gyeongui Line and Donghae Line that connect the two Koreas, just north of the Military Demarcation Line.