South Korean military: 'Highly likely' North Korean mine injured soldiers in DMZ


FILE PHOTO: A South Korea's observation post near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/ File Photo

SEOUL, Sept ⁠28 (Reuters) - South Korea's military ⁠said on Monday that it ‌was "highly likely" that the blasts that seriously injured two South Korean ​soldiers in the ⁠Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) at ⁠the border on September 21 ⁠were caused ‌by a North Korean mine.

A South ⁠Korean military team was conducting ​a ‌reconnaissance operation inside the western ⁠sector of ​the 4-km-wide DMZ border area separating the two ⁠Koreas when a landmine ​blast injured three heavily armed soldiers, two of them seriously.

South Korea's ⁠military together with the UN Command that oversees the Korean War armistice ending ​the 1950-53 conflict ⁠has conducted a field investigation ​inside the zone.

(Reporting ‌by Jack Kim, ​Heekyong Yang, Kyu-seok Shim; Editing by Aidan Lewis)

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