By The Daily Journalist.
Today North Korea deployed more than 50 military submarines, said a military officer in South Korea, while representatives of both countries try to negotiate solutions to their higher crisis in recent years.
“70% of North Korean submarines, whose total number is estimated at 70- departed from their bases without being able to confirm their location,” said an official of the South Korean armed forces to the local agency Yonhap.
The source also said the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un has doubled the number of artillery troops on the border and they are ready for combat.
The tension began on Thursday
The two Koreas have been involved in a serious episode of military tension since Thursday, the day North and South exchanged artillery fire across the border.
After the event Pyongyang launched several threats of attack on Seoul, and both sides remain prepared with troops and military equipment for possible combat.
In full crisis, high officials of both governments held Saturday afternoon a meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom to try to find a solution to the crisis.
Second round of talks today
After failing to reach an agreement this morning, the meeting was adjourned and representatives of both sides are reunited in a second round of talks at 15:30 local time today.
South Korean representatives from the director of the National Security Office, Kim Kwan-jin and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, Vice Marshal and the North Korean People’s Army Hwang Pyong-so and the director of the United Front Department Workers’ Party, Kim Yang-gon all agreed to continue for solutions against an escalation.
Between the first and the second meeting the two sides have been engaged to review the proposals and demands of its partners on the other side to make it easier to reach an agreement on the new round of talks, said the media spokesman of the Blue House .
On the marathon meeting yesterday was not disclosed details and the presidential office was merely informed that both parties sought to “resolve the situation newly created and improve relations between the two Koreas.”
The senior officials of both countries have laid to negotiate reflecting the severity of this new military crisis, which began last Thursday with the exchange of artillery fire between North and South in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of the 38th parallel.
North and South remain technically at odds since the Korean War (1950-53) ended with an armistice never replaced by a definitive peace treaty
Still, the armed forces of both sides remain combat ready in a climate of tension.
North and South remain technically at odds since the Korean War (1950-53) ended with an armistice never replaced by a definitive peace treaty
