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North Korea says it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announ

North Korea’s army said it will take a “substantial military step” to completely cut off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border.

North Korea's army said Wednesday it was moving to "permanently shut off and block the southern border" with Seoul and had informed the US military to prevent an accidental clash.

After promising to remove all mention of reunification with South Korea from its constitution, North Korea says it's eliminating all road and rail connections between the two enemy nations. Roads and railways connecting the countries will be cut off beginning Wednesday,

The unification ministry on Thursday "strongly" condemned North Korea's move to cut off all roads and railways connected to South Korea as an act that dampens aspiration for unification by people in the two Koreas.

Pyongyang will sever all road and rail links with its southern neighbour, 'fortify' its side of the border with 'strong defence structures' North Korea's announcement that it will sever all road and rail links with the South marks the first publicised military action to cut physical ties with what Pyongyang now considers a "principal enemy",