National Forensic Service

They said that it could have been a North Korean mine that drifted away from floods since there was rainfall the corresponding months before.

or you know rock old mines or displaced mines from the korean war and then on september 28th last monday the national forensic service and the jcs and the unc they finished they their preliminary investigation and they determined that it was quote unquote highly likely that a North Korean mine would have caused the explosion.

They detailed their sort of rationale behind that assessment by saying that there was evidence to suggest that troops who were on site, they did quote unquote say that there was or they did see a North Korean wooden box mine that was unexploded.

It was later determined the next day that a North Korean anti-personnel mine was found within that area.

So the South Korean establishment and the UNC establishment seem to believe that the mines have been planted by the North Korean military.

But to what intent it was, was it defensive? Was it offensive? Were they looking for something similar to the August 2015 landmine explosion? That's still something yet to be determined.

And also the National Forensic Service still has to deliver its final findings.

We are expecting some level of briefing from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the South Korean side and possibly the UNC this week.

Besides, even at night, the area is wide open, so there's a huge risk of being seen moving a body.

Just the moment the investigation team was about to move on, thinking they got the wrong person, there's a mail from the National Forensic Service.

The fingerprint analysis confirmed a match.

Let me explain.

It's still unclear as to what the intent was or whether there was an intent from North Korea to plant or not plant said mine.

However, there's still National Forensic Service investigations going on, especially considering what the debris, the TNT that came off from the inspector's clothes.

This is still something, an investigation that's going on.

That's why Seoul is finding a bit of a hard time to actually investigate.

Three South Korean soldiers were injured in the explosions on the south side of the military demarcation line within the DMZ, including a reconnaissance battalion commander who lost his foot.

The National Forensic Service analyzed the injured soldiers' body armor and helmets but found no metal fragments, something typically produced when South Korean mines detonate.

The explosions took place approximately 10 meters away from an area where the North is suspected of having planted mines recently.

The military is currently investigating whether the two exploded mines were buried intentionally or drifted from their original locations.