South Korea shoots warning footage in the northern forces crossing the border

South Korea has confirmed that it fired warning shots early in the week in North Korea soldiers, who briefly crossed the border, which is largely between the two countries.

The North Korean government media described the bullets as a “deliberate provocation” and accused Pyongyang Seoul of risk “irreplaceable tensions”.

The accident was announced, as the new South Korean President Lee Jay Meong Seoul left on Saturday to visit Tokyo and Washington.

Pyongyang has raised the bet in recent weeks, as the sister of leader Kim Jong -un has rejected her efforts towards the reconciliation of Lee’s government.

The accident occurred amid a continuous work by North Korea since last year to constantly close its borders with the south.

A tape from a benign land called the DMZ area is separated to the north and south, With interventions often tensions. DMZ borders are not fenced and signs are obscured with dense plants.

South Korean chiefs (JCS) said in a statement that some North Korean forces operating in the border area crossed the military demarcation line between the two countries at about 15:00 local time in Seoul on Tuesday (07:00 GMT).

JCS added that the soldiers later returned to the north of the line.

The North Korean army, Lieutenant General Co Jong Chul, said that the Seoul Army used a machine gun to launch more than 10 warning shots towards its soldiers, according to the government media.

The government media said: “This is a very dangerous introduction that will push the situation in the southern border area, where a large number of forces are concentrated in the confrontation with each other to an irreplaceable stage.”

Pyongyang was rejecting Seoul though A victory for me in the June elections, Those who carried a campaign to improve relations between the Koreans.

South Korea The army said later that month It has suspended broadcasting from the boundary loudspeakers to North Korea, as part of an attempt to “restore confidence” between the two sides.

Pyongyang considers that propaganda loudspeakers broadcast a war and threatened to detonate them in the past.

The two Koreas have been divided since the Korean war ended in 1953.

They have not signed a peace treaty, and therefore they have been in a state of war since then, although years have passed since either sides the other jumped.