N. Korea's border reinforcement move not violation of armistice: ex-UNC official
A former United Nations Command (UNC) official has said North Korea's intensified border fencing is not a violation of the Armistice Agreement that halted the 1950-53 Korean War, assessing it as "construction and maintenance activities." Michael MacArthur Bosack, the former deputy secretary of the UNC Military Armistice Commission, wrote the message on his social media, as North Korean troops have been building the fences very close to the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) separating the two Koreas. "In my time at UNCMAC, I saw no evidence of the KPA boundary hardening activities being hostile in nature," Bosack wrote on X on Monday, using the acronym of the Korean People's Army, the North's military. North Korea reportedly installed barbed wire fences just 80-90 meters from the inter-Korean border, clearing land to plant mines as close as 5-10 meters to the MDL, according to local media reports. On whether Pyongyang's move constitutes a violation of the armistice, Bosack claimed the activities are "construction and maintenance" work, noting that the South Korean army also does the same th
