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American and North Korean generals sat down together this morning for the first time in six years, after the US was accused of deliberate provocation in the tense border zone between the two Koreas.
The meeting, in the frontier area of Panmunjom on the dividing line between North and South Korea, comes at a time of increasing tension over the North’s preparations for firing a long-range rocket, which could strike targets in the far western US.
But the North has accused the US side of making mischief of its own in the so-called Demilitarised Zone – the narrow border strip across which North Korea’s huge army faces well-equipped American and South Korean forces.
“The US imperialist aggression forces in South Korea are stalking in groups in the above-said area any time they please,” said a statement put out over the weekend by the state Korean Central News Agency. “Such acts perpetrated . . . when the north-south relations are inching close to the brink of a war may touch off unpredictable military conflicts,” it continued.
The statement accused US troops of twice approaching the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), which marks the border proper and which is flanked by a cordon sanitaire of one kilometre on either side. “On January 5 and 21 they approached as close as 30 metres from the MDL . . . in the Western region and took photographs of a [North Korean observation] post”. It said that military vehicles approached within 100 metres of the border “on as many as 66 occasions” in the first seven weeks of the year.
