US troops deny 'winding up' North Korean soldiers with 'disgusting faces'
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Joseph Gamp
A UN spokesperson has dismissed allegations that US soldiers had been
"winding up" North Korean troops with "disgusting acts". Pyongang
officials said that American personnel were making facial gestures,
mimicking guards and making "strange noises" at North Korean soldiers,
an allegation which has been found to be unsubstantiated by an
investigation, it was reported on 30 April.
North Korea also claimed that US soldiers had encouraged South Korean
military members to take aim at their troops, which North Korea branded
"a dangerous provocation". That came as part of a wider statement, in
which it warned US soldiers to end "hooliganism", or else they would
meet "a dog's death any time and any place", according to a report by Sky News
The demilitarised Panmunjon village – where the incident allegedly took place, which is
the site where the armistice heralding the end of the Korean War in 1953 was signed –
is situated on the border of South and North Korea.
The
new allegations were investigated but have been determined as
unfounded, according to Christopher Bush, a spokesperson for the UN
command in the region.
It's
not the first time that both North Korea and South Korean and US troops
have accused each other of trying to provoke its troops. After North
Korea's first nuclear bomb test in 2006, the US accused the country's
troops of spitting across the border's demarcation line, while making
throat-slashing hand gestures and flashing their middle fingers in
provocation.
on 15 April, to mark the birthday of North Korea founder, Kim Il-Sung, but
crashed into the sea.
The country's latest failed missile launch – the second in under a month – also came amid heightened tensions in the region which followed a nuclear test and the launch of another long-range rocket by Pyongyang in early 2016.
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