North Korea Blows Up Roads in Ominous Move Against South Korea [Video]

North Korea has blown up parts of roads and railway lines heading for the border dividing the peninsula, according to South Korea’s military.

Pyongyang “conducted detonations” that Seoul believes were attempts to cut off transport routes linking North Korea to the South at around noon local time, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement reported by local media on Tuesday.

The “explosive work” was telegraphed last week by the North Korean army, which said it planned to “completely separate” the territories of the two Koreas in response to “the imminent danger of war;” this language suggested the tense relations between the two neighbors likely would sour further.

North Korea “is carrying out additional activities using heavy equipment,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. They added that the South had fired warning shots on its side of the Military Demarcation Line, the de facto inter-Korean border buffered on each side by a 2.5-mile wide Demilitarized Zone…