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The UN blue flag and the Taegeuk flag are hung on the DMZ (GP) lookout. Army headquarters

On Day 3, criticism of the persecution and North Korea’s opposition parties “is unapologetic” even though North Korean bullets hit the outer wall of four bullets from North Korean army bullets in the south (GP, police station) There are many. However, military authorities have been consistent since the shooting. That is, it is considered “oval” rather than intentional “provocation.”
Some argued that North Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong-un’s public activity on the 20th soared the day after it was reported, and that the “14.5mm weapon” used in the shooting was “provocation”, saying it was “a weapon used to execute Jang Sung-taek. ” Of course, the accusation that the 14.5mm gun was used to execute Kim’s aunt, Seong-taek Jang, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, is an unconfirmed unilateral claim.
On the morning of the 3rd, at 7:41 am, Korean soldiers working on the ground heard gunshots and immediately looked around the ground. Four bullets were found in the outer wall. Subsequently, the South Korean Army took two shots ten times each, giving the first and second warning, response fire, and warning broadcasts. Although it is common to fire warning shots in the air or on land slightly away from targets, the military is said to have fired at the north floor, just as the north fired at the outer wall of the south floor while making some counterattacks.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff does not officially define this as ‘provocation’ or ‘oval’. However, various circumstances are discussed as the basis for internally judging as ‘oval’. First, the distance (1.5 ~ 1.9 km) from the northern crust where multiple shots were supposed to have been fired and the southern rift where the bullet was found is outside the effective range of the 14.5 mm (1.4 km) rifle. Military officials noted whether there was a reason to target the provocation at a distance greater than the effective range, although the accuracy would decrease as the target’s distance increased.
The fact that the north land was lower than the south land, and North Korea would have responded to the warning and response fires from the South if it had intended to start in the first place. A government official said: “If North Korea did that on purpose, it should have responded or responded to our shooting, but there was no response.”
Along with this, △ the fog was intense in the field at the time, and the clock was not very good inside and out 1. The fact that there was also a situation in which the military authorities are very likely to fail.
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said the shooting by the North Korean army on 3 was “accidental”. The trials of the Republic of Korea and the US military authorities are no different.

The United Nations Command has carried out field investigations related to the incident since the 4th. There have been opinions that the results of the investigation have not yet been published, but that inside and outside the armed forces they can become UNC and question the response of the military of the Republic of Korea. The South Korean army is supposed to follow the “Proportional Principle” when responding according to its own rules of engagement, but the number of warning shots fired by the South Korean army is close to 30, which is five to seven times greater than the four shots from North Korea. An army official said on Friday, “The results will come out, but the possibility that the UN concludes that the South Korean army has taken excessive measures cannot be ruled out.”
There is also a question why the North Koreans are not trying to explain this if the incident originated from an unintended “fire”. The South Korean military sent a phone call on behalf of the chief representative of the south to talks by the North and South Korean generals three days ago, requesting an explanation from the North, but has not yet responded.
Until now, it is difficult to find precedents in which the North responded immediately to the traditional doors of protest of the southern military authorities. The number of cases in which the North has publicly admitted or clarified irregularities is among the ten fingers. Even that, as in the case of “expressing regret” in a high-level inter-Korean conversation shortly after the DMZ detonation in August 2015, most of the time it was inevitable to explain or apologize for inter-Korean relations, political or diplomatic reasons . The situation that inter-Korean authorities have been unable to overcome the long-term stagnation after the collapse of the second North Korea-United States summit in Hanoi is considered one of the antecedents in which the North has not actively explained. Reporter Roh Ji-won [email protected]