North Korea is banning land crossings at its border with South Korea starting next month because of what it calls the South’s confrontational stance.
The North’s military is taking action to “restrict and cut off all the overland passage” across the frontier beginning Dec. 1, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency said. The move comes amid heightened tensions on the peninsula and repeated accusations from the North that Seoul’s conservative government is engaging in “confrontational” activities.
Prohibiting passage through the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas primarily would affect South Koreans working in an inter-Korean business complex in Kaesong.