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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has blown up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, South Korea 's military said on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean peninsula.At around midday, some northern parts of the roads and rail lines connected to the South were blown up, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a message sent to media.
The two Koreas are still technically at war after their 1950-53 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.The cross-border links are remnants of periods of rapprochement between the countries including a 2018 summit between the leaders when they declared there would be no more war and a new era of peace had opened.Around 180 billion won in taxpayers' money was spent by South Korea to rebuild the inter-Korean road, according to the Yonhap news agency.
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