SEOUL: Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister denied a South Korean claim that North Korea was behind landmine blasts last week that injured three soldiers, state media reported on Wednesday (Sep 30).

The assertion over the explosions in the countries’ Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) “is too low and dirty as befitting the tribes of the ROK”, Kim Yo Jong said in a statement on Tuesday, the KCNA news agency said, referring to the South’s formal name, the Republic of Korea.

One soldier lost a foot due to the Sep 21 explosions in the DMZ, the heavily mined buffer zone that has divided the two Koreas since their 1953 armistice.

It is one of the world’s most heavily…

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