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S. Korean military launches operation to remove NK mines at recent DMZ blast site

Summary by The Korea Times
The South Korean military launched an operation Monday to remove any remaining land mines planted by North Korea at the site of a recent blast inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that left three South Korean service members injured. Three South Korean military officers were injured Sept. 21, two seriously, when two land mines south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in the western DMZ exploded. Following a joint inspection of the blast site,…

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The South Korean military has concluded that a mine explosion that injured three soldiers was caused by landmines laid by North Korea.

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff has finally confirmed that the soldier injury accident in the Demilitarized Zone on the western front was caused by a landmine planted by the North Korean military. Military authorities have concluded the investigation into the accident and officially announced that the planting of landmines by the North Korean military was the cause.

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff (Joint Chiefs of Staff) announced on the 5th that the mine explosion that occurred in the Western Front Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was caused by mines laid by the North Korean military. In a briefing on the final investigation results of the landmine explosion on the same day, Deputy Chief of Staff Kwon Dae-won said, “North Korea's military demarcation line (MDL) due to so-called border fortification work

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(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead with details; ADDS more info throughout)SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military has concluded that North Korea had deliberately "planted" the two mines that exploded inside the Demilitarized Zone

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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