North and South Korea trade accusations over landmines that injured three soldiers

Pyongyang and Seoul are trading increasingly hostile accusations across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the peninsula, 10 days after three South Korean soldiers were injured by a land mine on the South's side of the border. The latest tensions may reflect a broader North Korean effort to test South Korea 's resolve while extending its control to the outer limits of its territory, including an area that has effectively been a no-man's land for more than 70 years, according to a professor of foreign policy at South Korea's Kyung Hee University's department of Chinese studies "The North revised its constitution in March this year and officially stated that they intend to define the absolute geographical limits of the nation, and that...