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S Korea rejects DPRK's border accusation

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-22 16:04

SEOUL -- A South Korean defense official said Wednesday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) falsely accused South Korea, saying South Korea tried to push their heavily armed border further north.

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"We call on the North to stop unnecessarily raising tension by making groundless claims," Army Col. Park Sung-woo, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing.

The South Korean forces did not approach the border marker in question, which is managed by the DPRK, and, hence, did not move it, the spokesman said.

The DPRK earlier in the day claimed that South Korea moved a border marker dozens of meter to the north in the Demilitarized Zone.

The accusation came a day after the official inter-Korean talks, the first after the Lee Myung-bak administration took office, were held in the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

There are about 1,290 border marker to draw the border that cuts across the Korean Peninsula, according to the spokesman.