Demilitarized no more? North Korea's DMZ fortifications creep south as Seoul, UNC differ over signficance.

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• ·Fences, mines and tactical roads are moving to within meters of the border line as Pyongyang accelerates efforts to seal and militarize the inter-Korean divide.
• ·North Korea has erected barbed-wire fences to within 80 meters (262 feet) of the line dividing the two Koreas and cleared ground for land mines just 5 to 10 meters from it, the closest such fortification work has been confirmed near the line.
• ·However, the Ministry of National Defense and the United Nations Command (UNC) disagree on whether it violates the Armistice Agreement.
• ·The work is moving faster than South Korean officials expected.
• ·What military planners once thought would take more than four years could now be completed in two to three years, as Pyongyang pours unprecedented manpower into sealing the border.