North Korea is getting ready to blow up roads that cross the heavily militarised border with South Korea, Seoul said on Monday (October 14) amid an escalating war of words after the North accused its rival of sending drones over its capital Pyongyang.

North Korean troops were working under camouflage on the roads on its side of the border near the west and east coasts that are likely preparations to blow up the roads, possibly as early as on Monday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Last week, North Korea’s Army said it would completely cut roads and railways connected to South Korea and fortify the areas on its side of the border, according to the North’s state media KCNA.

Separately, North Korea accused South Korea on Friday (October 11) of sending drones to scatter a “huge number” of anti-North leaflets over Pyongyang, and said on Sunday (October 13) that it has put eight fully armed artillery units at the border “on standby to open fire.”

(Reuters)