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North Korea warns South about allowing media in border area
Mar 29, 2010, 18:30 GMT
Seoul - North Korea warned on Monday that any press coverage from South Korea in a border buffer zone would risk inviting unpredictable disaster.
An unidentified army spokesman of the North's Korean People's Army said South Korea was engaged in 'hostile acts to exploit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a confrontational tool.'
'If the South continues in such violations, it would trigger an unpredictable situation involving loss of human lives,' North Korea said in a statement released through the official Korean Central News Agency.
The two sides are divided by a four-kilometre-wide militarized zone that runs along the military border established under a truce that ended the Korean War of 1950-53.
Marking the 60th anniversary of the war, South Korea's Defence Ministry tentatively promised on February 15 to allow media access to the DMZ primarily for environment inspection.
The warning may also concern tourism, as thousands of tourists each year visit spots along the DMZ, as well as a truce village inside the zone.
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