JCS chief pays visit to console soldiers injured in DMZ blast

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Jin Yong-sung visited soldiers injured in a Sept. 21 land mine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Tuesday, offering his sympathy and pledging to ensure their focus on recovery. Jin met with the wounded soldiers and their families at the Armed Forces Capital Hospital in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and visited the Army Aviation Command in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, to inspect the operational readiness of a KUH-1M military medical evacuation helicopter that was deployed at the time of the blast.

The South Korean military determined that the mine blast was caused by resin antipersonnel mines deliberately planted by North Korea south of the Military Demarcation Line.

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