October 10, 2024
Roads and railways have been demolished, making room for new defense structures which will soon be occupied by fully armed military personnel. Fields filled with thousands of mines to stop the advance of possible enemy forces. It is the end of the unification between South Korea and North Korea and the new framework of the border between the two countries, which now risks becoming explosive. Pyongyang, at the behest of its leader Kim Jong-Un, has in fact severed any residual ties with Seoul and has begun the construction of new threatening defense structures on the border with the southern half of the peninsula.
The news spread across the main South Korean media, which also cited Seoul’s Ministry of Unification – the protagonist of a strong protest against Kim Jong-Un’s decision which undermines the foundations of the dream of unity of the two countries. There was also no lack of condemnation from Seoul which rebuked Pyongyang – as reported by Adnkronos – for the demolition of all road and rail links to the south. A decision that was announced a few days ago by the North Korean information bodies themselves and is now visible thanks to the satellites that detected the first demolitions. Action that pursues the ideas of the supreme leader who at the end of last year declared that the two Koreas were “hostile states”.
The demolition and closure of transport is considered symbolic by most experts but Kim Jong-Un is still worrying Seoul. North Korea has in fact been undermining the border for months and the move is only the prelude to a new deterioration in relations between the two countries. Unification would therefore now be at the end of the line. And the next moves of the supreme leader who has repeatedly branded the issue as of little interest – “no one is interested in it anymore” he declared a few months ago when rewriting the foreign policies of his predecessors – could cause relations between south and north to deteriorate openly conflict. In fact, Kim Jong-Un would be ready to adopt a new constitution that expressly provides for identifying the south as a hostile nation. And, an even more explosive change, the definition of new maritime borders, obviously to the detriment of Seoul, and which would bring the two nations into a probable direct clash.
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