Koreas to Connect Cross-Border Road this Week for Excavation of War Remains
A new cross-border road will open this week for a joint project to excavate war remains buried in a 1953 battlefield in the world's last Cold War frontier as the two Koreas completed their work to remove mines, Aju Business Daily reports.
The South's defense ministry said Tuesday that a 12-meter wide unpaved military road would be connected on Thursday at the midpoint of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), a four-kilometer-wide strip of land that has divided the Korean peninsula since an armistice accord ended the three-year conflict in 1953.
The six-month joint excavation of war remains in the northern border town of Cheorwon will begin in April next year in Hill 281 (Arrowhead), a site of intense battles in 1953 for dominant and strategic hilltop positions. Defense ministry data showed hundreds of soldiers from South Korea, the U.S. and France were buried in the hill. Chinese soldiers fought for North Korea.
The demining operation that followed an inter-Korean summit in September began on October 1. North Korea has removed thousands of landmines on its side while South Korea has removed hundreds of mines and unspecified explosives.
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