N. Korea removes power lines to transmission towers installed by South

北, 남측이 세운 개성공단 전력공급용 송전탑 전선 끊어

And in yet another show of open animosity North Korea has severed the power lines set up by South Korea for the operation of a former joint industrial site.
Our defense correspondent Kim Bo-kyoung reports.

Another move by North Korea to sever inter-Korean ties.
Pyongyang has cut part of the power lines to the South Korea-installed transmission towers that supply electricity to the now-closed Kaesong Industrial Complex.
According to the South Korean military, several North Korean soldiers have been detected removing sections of power lines along the Gyeongui road since Sunday.

"The regime is yet to do anything to the transmission towers. They have piled up the severed high-voltage lines that fell to the ground."

It is speculated that cutting power lines could be part of preparations to get rid of the towers.
The transmission towers, the steel pylons, are built at intervals of several hundred meters along the Gyeongui Line road, running from just north of the Military Demarcation Line the area North Korea blew up in mid-October to the joint industrial park.
There are a total of 48 transmission towers from the Munsan Substation to the North Korean Peace Substation, 33 towers in the south, and 15 on the northern side.
These transmission facilities, built by the South's Korea Electric Power Corporation in 2006, connected the two Koreas and supplied electricity to the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
The power supply was temporarily cut off in February 2016, following North Korea's 4th nuclear test in January of that year.
Afterwards, with the thawing of inter-Korean relations, the power supply was partially resumed, but only to be completely halted again in June 2020 after North Korea unilaterally blew up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong.
Cutting off the power lines and preparing for the possible demolition of these transmission towers is seen as part of the regime's actions to sever inter-Korean connections since its leader Kim Jong-un declared the two Koreas as hostile nations.

This follows the removal of streetlights along roads that run alongside the Gyeongui and Donghae train lines earlier this year, the removal of the railroads in May, and the demolition of roads in October.
Kim Bo-kyoung, Arirang News.

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2024-11-26, 17:00 (KST)

[mississippihiker]

North Korea…progress towards the Stone Age is underway….

[peterfairlie]

Kim's got big plans to turn all that metal into weapons.

[salone]

What does it matter anyway? When you look at the earth from space at night 80% of N. Korea has no power as it is.

[LordMondegrene]

Blew up the building, cut power lines, took out street lights... well, as long as he's not being petty, or stupid.
What a he-man.

[seansimone-ek]

North Korea like a small child. But I really think it’s only him that has the major problem with South Korea not his people.

[JohnWilson-wggk]

No phones, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury. Like Robinson Caruso, it's primative as can be...

[oifmarinesgt]

Eventually there's going to be so few people in North Korea it will be easy for South Korea to just move in without a problem and claim it.

[DerBingle]

North Korea is dying. Population has been weak and starving for decades. The younger generation are small in stature, in very poor health and the mortality rate is very high.

[Deeeeeeeeeeeeee-ll]

And NKoreas exports are down by 98% now! You show them Pres Kim. He will prove Nkoreans dont need to eat at all?

[wmpmacm]

They do not need electricity. They have tallow candles.

[mikemondano]

They could get a few bucks for the scrap metal from Sanford & Son. Maybe buy a couple sandwiches to send to the front lines so they don't need to eat trees and the dead.

[ivypixley]

Good South Korea can use that extra power instead of powering the North Korea military complex good move😊

[herbrice]

Y’all keep saying there’s copper in those wires, but there’s not it’s all aluminum. Duh! 😂

[gabeeaglesland]

N. Korea is a bad place, I feel sorry for their citizens. 😢

[patrickfuller]

They are so poor they need the metal from the power lines and towers. Kim junk un is a mad man.

[frdr]

They're simply scraping the metal for money 😂

[Tacoma-W]

Their aim is to be the greatest country on this planet. No more electricity.

[ronb]

It's like dealing with a spoiled child. Actually, it is in fact dealing with a spoiled child.

[edwinrodeo]

The poor people in the North are suffering severely…

[BobbyDaniels-ckjv]

Everyone sits around complaining about the cost of food however the North Korean people don’t have food at all, they eat insects and forage from plants that in many cases are toxic to eat.
If you opened the borders between those two countries and allowed people a choice to leave North Korea would be vacant within weeks.
The amount of pain and suffering those people endure is beyond comprehension.