OR South Korea confirmed that he opened fire with warning fire earlier in the week vs. North Korean soldierswho briefly passed the heavy fortified border between the two countries.

The state -of -the -art media North Korea They described the incident as a “deliberate challenge” and accused Seoul of endangering the challenge of “uncontrollable” tension.

The episode came to light as the new president of South Korea, Le Ja Miungdeparted from Seoul on Saturday for visits to Tokyo and Washington.

The tension in the Korean peninsula has increased in recent weeks, with his sister Kim Jong Un to reject the efforts to re -establish the new South Korean government.

The incident occurred amid Pyongyang’s ongoing work last year to permanently seal its borders with the south.

The demilitarized zone (DMZ) – a neutral area strip that separates the two cubes – is not fenced and dense vegetation often hides the signs of the boundaries, resulting in incidents of violation that increase intensity.

The South Korean Armed Forces General Staff said that North Korean soldiers, who were working in the border area, crossed the military boundary around 15:00 local time on Tuesday. Shortly afterwards, they returned north of the line.

According to North Korean state media, Lieutenant General Mr. Jong Tsol of the People’s Army complained that the South Korean side used machine guns and threw more than 10 warning fire.

“It is a very serious preamble, which will inevitably lead the situation to the southern border, where there are great forces in conflict, in an uncontrolled phase,” he allegedly said.

Despite Lee’s victory in the June elections, Pyongyang remains intransigent, with Seoul later announcing that it will suspend propaganda broadcasts through loudspeakers to the north in the context of “restoring confidence”.

North Korea considers these emissions an act of war and has in the past threatened to destroy loudspeakers.

The two countries have been technically in war since 1953, when the Korean war ended without the signing of a peace treaty, though years have passed since the last artillery exchanging.