North Korea, this time, cut the wire of the transmission tower...Inter-Korean Disruption Activities Continued

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North Korea has been seen demolishing the transmission tower wires that we built in the past to the North to supply power to the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

Since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's so-called "hostile relationship between two countries" earlier this year, such disconnection has followed the bombing of the Gyeongui Line and other land routes.

Reporter Park Hee-jae reports.

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Several North Korean soldiers are climbing on a pylon built on a desolate site covered in dirt.

Most of them didn't even have safety equipment.

The North Korean military is demolishing the front lines from the transmission tower in the northern part of the military demarcation line.

[Lee Sung-joon / Joint Chiefs of Staff Press Secretary: The North Korean military has been removing power lines north of the Gyeongui Line MDL since last Sunday.]The transmission tower of

was built by us in December 2006 to supply power to the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

A total of 48 units were built, and 15 units were installed on the north side.

Experts analyzed that North Korea may have cut the material of the transmission tower wire for other purposes.

[Hong Min / Senior Researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification] The wire owner itself is very much you. So North Korea may have processed the wire separately and used it for other purposes or used it in a different way. We need to look at it first because North Korea has been risking its life to sell or collect the wire.

Prior to the demolition of power lines, North Korea blew up the Gyeongui Line and the East Sea Line, which cost about KRW 180 billion last month.

There, a concrete pit was built to block the tram, and a pile of dirt was piled up to 11 meters high.

In the closed Kaesong Industrial Complex, at least 40 out of 125 factories and facilities owned by Korean companies were also detected operating without permission.

Since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's so-called "two hostile states" remarks earlier this year, North Korea's intentional provocation toward our property has continued.

I'm Park Heejae of YTN.