AP Explains: Removal of mines from Korean Demilitarized Zone

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AP Explains: Removal of mines from Korean Demilitarized Zone
By HYUNG-JIN KIM, ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea — Sep 30, 2018, 11:27 PM ET

South Korea has begun removing mines at two sites inside its heavily fortified border with North Korea, which is expected to do the same as part of their recent deals to ease decades-long military tensions. They will likely end up pulling out a very small portion of an estimated 2 million mines littered inside and near the 248-kilometer (155-mile) -long, 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) -wide Demilitarized Zone. But it would be the rivals' first joint demining work in more than a decade and comes amid international diplomacy aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.

A look at the mine clearing:

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