North Korea blew up a section of inter-Korean roads and rail route on its side of the border between the two Koreas, prompting South Korea's military to fire warning shots. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports on the rising tension between the two countries.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has designated South Korea a “hostile state,” its state media said Thursday, confirming that its national assembly had amended the constitution in line with leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to drop unification as a national goal. The North’s
news agency reported that the military had blasted sections of road and rail links with South Korea on Tuesday as a legitimate action against a hostile state as defined by the constitution. Sixty-six yard sections of the road and railway on the North’s side of the border were now completely blocked as part of a “phased complete separation of its territory” from the South, it said.
said, using the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and South Korea’s, the Republic of Korea. cited a defense ministry spokesperson as saying the country would take further steps to “permanently fortify the closed southern border” but did not mention any other changes to the constitution that Kim had ordered. A satellite image released by imagery company BlackSky and taken on Wednesday showed the road leading to the city of Kaesong in the North torn with a large gash on the pavement and surrounding area.
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