South Korea dismantles border guard posts

By Chang Yong Jun and Hyung-Jin Kim
Updated November 16 2018 - 7:26am, first published 7:20am
South Korea is demolishing its guard posts inside the DMZ under an agreement with the North.
South Korea is demolishing its guard posts inside the DMZ under an agreement with the North.

South Korea has exploded one of its own front-line guard posts on, sending plumes of thick, black smoke into the sky above the border with North Korea, in the most dramatic scene to date in the rivals' efforts to reduce animosities that sparked last year's fears of war.

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