N. Korean military provocations on border seen as pressure tactics on South to ease sanctions

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com

SEOUL — North Korea plans to increase military activities along the heavily fortified border with South Korea, sources and analysts here said.

North Korea as seen from the DMZ at Panmunjom. / Wikimedia
North Korea as seen from the DMZ at Panmunjom. / Wikimedia

“A string of moves have been detected [indicating] that the North’s military has prepared to step up patrols along the Military Demarcation Line,” a military source said. “There have been unusually brisk activities at the North’s front-line guard posts,” he said.

The moves are being seen here as a bid to put pressure on Seoul to lift its sanctions that has blocked cash flow to the destitute communist North.

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