Seoul: Koreas to conduct joint verification on front-line guard posts
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(6 Dec 2018) The two Koreas will exchange inspection teams across their heavily armed border next week to verify each other's works to remove some of their front-line guard posts, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the past weeks, the Koreas each have dismantled or disarmed 11 of their guard posts as part of agreements to reduce tensions that were reached during their leaders' summit in Pyongyang in September. Vice Defense Minister Suh Choo-suk told reporters that the two Koreas agreed to conduct one-day mutual verification on the sites of the guard posts next Wednesday. He said the Koreas will each send 11 military inspection teams to the other's 11 sites. Suh said the mutual verification is proof of trust established between the two militaries. Under the September agreements, the Koreas have also taken steps to demilitarize the shared border village, halted live-fire drills along the border and have been removing mines to conduct joint searches for Korean War dead. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/35e1add5119bae967bb875c3b35e08fc
