Kim is acting up...how crazy is that guy?

North Korea threatens to 'turn the front line into a fortress' and re-militarize its border with South

Business Insider•June 15, 2020


Kim Yo Jong can be seen riding a horse alongside her brother during a strange, but likely symbolic photoshoot.

KCNA via Reuters


North Korea on Monday threatened to draft plans to take military action into areas that were disarmed under a previous agreement with the South.


Troops and weapons from 22 guard posts at the border, 11 for each country, were previously withdrawn.


Pyongyang, which has long been viewed to manufacture crisis to its political advantage, has pointed to North Korean defectors living in the South as their source of ire.


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North Korea on Monday threatened to draft plans to take military action into areas that were disarmed under a previous agreement with the South, in response to what it described as deteriorating relations.

In a statement released by the country's propaganda media outlet, Korean Central News Agency, the Korean People's Army (KPA) said it would be "getting itself ready for providing a sure military guarantee."

"Our Army will rapidly and thoroughly implement any decisions and orders of the Party and government," the North Korean military said, adding that it would organize an "action plan for taking measures to make the Army advance again into the zones that had been demilitarized under the North-South agreement."

The KPA threatened the plan would "turn the front line into a fortress and further heighten the military vigilance against the South."

In 2018, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to take several steps to deescalate tensions. Troops and weapons from 22 guard posts, 11 for each country, were withdrawn at the border. South Korea has around 60 guard posts while the North is believed to have around 160 in the area, according to the Associated Press.

Despite several high profile summits with President Moon and President Donald Trump, North Korea has since jettisoned its feelings of good-will and began to threaten its neighbors. Earlier this month, North Korea cut off its official communications line with the South and threatened to "collapse" a joint North-South liaison office.