Seoul Says North Korea Rebuilding Guard Posts, Placing Firearms Along Border

The United States warns North Korea’s actions could escalate the risk of military tensions and miscalculations on the Korean Peninsula.

Flags of North Korea (rear) and South Korea (front) flutter in the wind as pictured from the border area between the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on Aug. 9, 2021. Im Byung-shik/Yonhap via AP

South Korea’s defense ministry said on Monday that North Korea has begun rebuilding guard posts and deploying firearms along the border as tensions rise following the North’s recent spy satellite launch.

The ministry said it detected movements indicating the reconstruction of North Korean guard posts on Nov. 24, just a day after Pyongyang vowed to restore “all military measures” previously halted under a 2018 inter-Korean accord.