Thursday, 25 May 2017

North Korea accuses South of machine-gunning birds in Demilitarized Zone


U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits at the border village of Panmunjom
Image:North Korean border guards keep a close eye on their southern counterparts. Pic: File 

Military officials in Seoul initially suggested the object they attacked on Tuesday was a drone being piloted by their communist neighbours.

They later said it was actually balloons carrying propaganda leaflets.

But North Korea has now claimed the South was "caught by mental derangement" and "confrontation hysteria", unleashing its storm of bullets at an innocent "flock of birds flying in the sky".

North Korea tested the Pukguksong-2 missile on Sunday
Video:North Korea's latest missile launch

The Demilitarized Zone is a heavily mined and fortified strip of land - with rival troops often metres apart - that runs along the countries' 160-mile border.

The North's news agency, KCNA, described it as "the most acute hotspot where huge troops of both sides constantly level their guns at each other"

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