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North Korea orders border walls and fences to be completed by October 10
“Construction units feel they need to hurry the construction because the work will get harder during the monsoon season,” a source told Daily NK
2021.07.08 9:16am
As North Korea builds concrete walls and high voltage wires along the entire China-North Korea border, military units and labor brigades tasked with the construction recently received an order to complete their work by Oct. 10, or Party Foundation Day.
A source in Yanggang Province, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Daily NK on Monday that the Central Committee and Cabinet issued a joint order on June 26 to complete construction of the “bulletproof wall” and high voltage wires by Oct. 10 “at all costs.”
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North Korean border guards continue to shoot people who cross into buffer zone
Since January, there have been several killings of locals who entered the buffer zone, a source told Daily NK
2021.02.22 1:49pm
Border guard troops reportedly shot to death a local resident near the Sino-North Korean border in Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province, earlier this month after he inadvertently entered the “buffer zone” while chasing his goat.
With North Korea tightly sealing the border to prevent the entry of COVID-19, the Ministry of Social Security had issued a proclamation ordering residents along the northern frontier not to hinder operations to close the border.