Two Koreas finish demolition of 10 guard posts each; inspection due next month
- 5 years ago
남북, 시범철수 GP 완전파괴 유해 발굴지역 지뢰제거 오늘 완료
Steps towards building trust and establishing peace around the border area between the two Korea have been continuously taken.
Some tangible results are coming in:
Seoul and Pyeongyang finally completed demolishing ten guard posts each in the DMZ.
Our defense ministry correspondent Park Ji-won fills us in.
A military source tells Arirang News... that work to demolish the guard posts was finished as of Friday afternoon.
The 20 guard posts, 10 on each side,... were located within one kilometer of the Miliary Demarcation Line.
They were torn down in a process that started early this month,... to implement the inter-Korean military agreement from the September summit.
In that agreement, both Koreas had agreed to stop all hostile acts against each other... and work towards confidence building.
Originally, the plan was to get rid of 22 guard posts,... eleven on each side,... but South and North agreed in late October to each preserve one of them for historic and symbolic value.
The two Koreas plan to conduct a thorough inspection of the demolition work by the end of December.
Elsewhere in the DMZ,... at Arrowhead Hill in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do Province,... the two Koreas finished removing landmines on Friday.
Arrowhead Hill was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War, and removing mines from it was also part of September's inter-Korean military agreement.
The mines were removed to prepare for the first-ever joint project to recover war remains from the area... due to start next April.
And... yet more disarmament going on at the Joint Security Area in the truce village of Panmunjeom.
Firearms were removed from the JSA in October, and now the two Koreas and the United Nations Command,... are dicussing how to manage the area together,... including how to divide up guard duty.
The defense ministry spokesperson Choi Hyun-soo said... the two Koreas aim to allow civilians to freely visit both sides of the JSA by the end of this year.
Park Ji-won, Arirang News.
Steps towards building trust and establishing peace around the border area between the two Korea have been continuously taken.
Some tangible results are coming in:
Seoul and Pyeongyang finally completed demolishing ten guard posts each in the DMZ.
Our defense ministry correspondent Park Ji-won fills us in.
A military source tells Arirang News... that work to demolish the guard posts was finished as of Friday afternoon.
The 20 guard posts, 10 on each side,... were located within one kilometer of the Miliary Demarcation Line.
They were torn down in a process that started early this month,... to implement the inter-Korean military agreement from the September summit.
In that agreement, both Koreas had agreed to stop all hostile acts against each other... and work towards confidence building.
Originally, the plan was to get rid of 22 guard posts,... eleven on each side,... but South and North agreed in late October to each preserve one of them for historic and symbolic value.
The two Koreas plan to conduct a thorough inspection of the demolition work by the end of December.
Elsewhere in the DMZ,... at Arrowhead Hill in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do Province,... the two Koreas finished removing landmines on Friday.
Arrowhead Hill was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War, and removing mines from it was also part of September's inter-Korean military agreement.
The mines were removed to prepare for the first-ever joint project to recover war remains from the area... due to start next April.
And... yet more disarmament going on at the Joint Security Area in the truce village of Panmunjeom.
Firearms were removed from the JSA in October, and now the two Koreas and the United Nations Command,... are dicussing how to manage the area together,... including how to divide up guard duty.
The defense ministry spokesperson Choi Hyun-soo said... the two Koreas aim to allow civilians to freely visit both sides of the JSA by the end of this year.
Park Ji-won, Arirang News.