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South Korea's military says North Korea fired at least one projectile towards its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff today did not immediately say whether the weapon was a ballistic missile or how far it flew.

Japan described the weapon as a suspected ballistic missile.

The launch followed an October 3 test of what the North described as a hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to evade missile defenses in South Korea and Japan.

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So the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it will reorganize DMZ operations and prepare both physical and non-physical responses to deter further provocations.

It also plans to strengthen surveillance near the military demarcation line by expanding ground monitoring equipment and deploying more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets.

Uh, the ministry, uh, the military, sorry, will also accelerate a shift toward AI and advanced technology-based security systems at general outposts.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jin Yong-seung characterizes the landmines planted by North Korea south of the inter-Korean border as a provocation.

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A senior military official in South Korea has characterized the landmines planted by North Korea south of the military demarcation line as a provocation.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jin Yong-seung told lawmakers Thursday during a National Assembly audit of the Joint Chiefs that when his subordinates were seriously injured, he did not for a moment consider it anything other than a provocation.

Jin's comments came in response to Representative Im Jong-duk, a People Power Party member of the Parliamentary National Defense Committee, who questioned why the term provocation was omitted from the Joint Chiefs' official announcement regarding the landmine explosions.

He said North Korea bears full responsibility and that the South Korean military will respond firmly to any act that threatens national security.

Asked about the timing of additional mine removal operations, 강 said the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United Nations Command will assess the situation and decide how to proceed.

Announcing the results of its final investigation on Monday, the military said mines planted by North Korea south of the military demarcation line are what injured South Korean troops in September.

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The South Korean military has concluded that resin-caused anti-personnel mines planted south of the military demarcation line by North Korea were the cause of a blast inside the demilitarized zone on September 21 that injured three South Korean soldiers.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Kwon Dae-won said at a press briefing Monday that the conclusion was the result of a joint investigation with the United Nations Command, including GPS data showing that the blast sites were south of the military demarcation line, scientific evidence identifying the mines as North Korean anti-personnel mines, and indications that they had been deliberately planted rather than displaced.

Based on the joint survey with the UNC and scientific grounds, we have concluded that South Korean personnel who were conducting a normal DMZ operation south of the MDL suffered serious injuries because of resin-cased anti-personnel mines the North had planted as part of the regime's border fortification work.

At around 12.51 p.m. today, the military removed the remaining North Korean mines south of the demarcation line that were recognized as the source of the blasts and which the UNC deemed to be in violation of the armistice

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South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile towards the East Sea on Saturday morning.

The JCS said it detected the missile launch from the Wonsan area on the North's east coast at around 6.30am.

The JCS said the military has reinforced its monitoring and vigilance, while South Korea, the United States and Japan are closely sharing information on North Korea's ballistic missile activities and maintaining a full defence posture.

An engineer in the lead team, they triggered a mine in the first explosion.

And then it looks like the battalion commander, according to this is all based on the Joint Chiefs of Staff briefing, ran towards the wounded soldiers.

But then a second explosion occurred as he approached.

And this seriously injured him.

Okay, moving on, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement Wednesday, saying that North Korean landmines were the source of recent explosions, as Mr. Shim just mentioned, inside the DMZ.

What evidence, Sir General Jun, what evidence backs up this assessment from the UNC? And would you be able to tell us about the key features of North Korean anti-personnel landmines and how they differ from South Korean mines?

Well, there are several pieces of evidence and taken together, they make a very strong case.

First, the forensic examination of the material recovered from the explosion found TNT and blown synthetic material.