Road, rail links with ‘hostile state’ South Korea has been blow up by North Korea

 

North Korea has blown up sections of its road and railway links with South Korea and labelled its neighbour a “hostile state”, state media has said.

The Korean People’s Army destroyed the 60-metre-long (about 200ft) stretches of road and rail along the east and west sections of the inter-Korean border “as part of the phased complete separation” of North and South, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday.

“This is an inevitable and legitimate measure taken in keeping with the requirement of the DPRK Constitution which clearly defines the ROK as a hostile state, and due to the serious security circumstances running to the unpredictable brink of war owing to the grave political and military provocations of the hostile forces,” the KCNA said, using the acronyms of the official names of North and South Korea.

KCNA cited a Ministry of Defence spokesman as saying Pyongyang would take further measures to “permanently fortify” the border without providing details.

The move to label South Korea a “hostile state” comes after North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly met last week to rewrite the secretive country’s constitution.