NK sends letter to UNSC calling DMZ mine blast S. Korean fabrication
North Korea has sent a letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) calling last month's land mine blast near the border an incident "fabricated" by South Korea, Pyongyang's state media reported Monday. The North's move came less than a week after South Korea sent to the council its own letter calling on North Korea to apologize for the Sept. 21 mine blast that injured three South…
Pyongyang has addressed a letter to the U.N. Security Council president, asserting that a recent land mine explosion near the border was a contrived incident by South Korea. This development unfolded just a week after Seoul forwarded its own missive to the council, urging North Korea to apologize for the Sept. 21 mine blast which left three South Korean soldiers wounded and violated the Armistice Agreement.
The letter, dispatched on Sunday by Pyongyang's UN permanent representative, contended that Seoul had fabricated the mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a "sinister" attempt to obstruct the North's border fortification efforts. The North described the fortification as a "legitimate and just exercise of its sovereignty," carried out in strict accordance with the U.N.
Charter and international law as a self-defensive measure to safeguard its territorial security from the threat of aggression. Furthermore, Pyongyang accused the South Korean military of firing warning shots at the North.
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