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China-Japan-Koreas
Drifting Nork mine kills S. Korean
2010-08-02
Hat tip to Josh Stanton.
SEOUL -- A North Korean mine which drifted along a river into the neighbouring South killed a man and badly injured another when it exploded, military officials said Sunday. Several wooden box mines have been retrieved by South Korean soldiers and police, but it was not immediately clear how the mines ended up drifting into the South.

The explosion was reported shortly before midnight Saturday in a restricted border area in Yeoncheon, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of Seoul, the defence ministry said.

A 48-year-old man died and a 25-year-old man was seriously injured.

"Han was killed by one of the North Korean wooden box mines which had drifted south along the border river," a ministry spokesman told AFP.
Apparently these mines are of a Russian design; they have little metal inside and are supposedly a bastard to detect.
South Korean soldiers and police have retrieved 29 boxes of North Korean mines in their joint search which began on Friday along all streams connected to the Imjin River, he said, of which 18 boxes were empty.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  When I served in Korea in the 1970s, we had to help the South Korean military check the banks of the rivers every spring because the North Koreans floated down several hundred wooden shoebox mines every year, during the spring flood season. And if you did not catch them on the banks and the spring flood crest was high enough, the South Korean farmers would get blown up in the rice paddies later in the summer. One of the on-going North Korean minor acts of terrorism against the South.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2010-08-02 04:52  

#2  Obviously released as a plausable denial for the Cheonan sinking.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-08-02 00:11  

#1  Jesus H. Christ. Why? Are these leftovers, or a recent provocation just for the sake of being butts?
Posted by: gorb   2010-08-02 00:09  

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