North Korea after accusing its neighbor of planting land mines inside the Demilitarised Zone border that maimed two soldiers last week.There was evidence to conclude that soldiers from the North crossed the Military Demarcation Line recently to plant the mines, and Pyongyang would be made to "pay a severe price", the South's military told a news briefing.
"We strongly condemn this cowardly act, which would be unthinkable for a normal military," Major General Ku Hong-mo of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, calling it a violation of the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
The denunciation is likely to provoke an angry response from the North and further raise tensions on the Korean peninsula.