North Korea cuts South Korean-supplied power lines
North Korea has severed the power lines installed by South Korea to supply electricity to the now-closed joint industrial park in Kaesong, a North Korean border city.
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North Korea/South Korea: North Korea has severed the power lines installed by South Korea to supply electricity to the now-closed joint industrial park in Kaesong, a North Korean border city, South Korea’s military has reported. North Korean soldiers have been observed removing part of the power lines connecting transmission towers built along the Gyeongui road since Sunday, in what might be preparations to demolish the transmission towers built by the South.
“The North has yet to work on the transmission towers. North Korean soldiers have piled up the severed high-voltage lines that fell on the ground,” Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Col. Lee Sung-jun told a regular press briefing.
Lee added that North Korea has cut power lines connected to the first transmission tower located north of the military demarcation line, saying that further monitoring is needed. South Korea built 48 transmission towers, including 15 in the North, to supply electricity to the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Power supply has been stopped since June 2020 after the North blew up an inter-Korean liaison office at the complex after lashing out at Seoul for failing to stop North Korean defectors in South Korea from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Asked whether North Korea severed the power lines to recycle them, Lee didn’t rule out such a possibility, noting that the lines contain a large amount of copper.
Source: news.az
