U.N. forces on Monday said North Korea was behind a landmine explosion last week that wounded two South Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries.
The United Nations Command said North Korea had breached several paragraphs of the armistice on the Korean Peninsula by planting the mines along a South Korean patrol route in the southern half of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone.
“The United Nations Command condemns these violations of the Armistice Agreement, and will call for a general officer level-dialog with the Korean People’s Army,” the U.N. statement said, referring to the North Korean military.
The U.N. Command said that its investigation had found that the wooden box landlines were recently planted, ruling out the possibility that they were old mines that might have been displaced by rain or other elements over the years.