North Korea on Tuesday demolished 10 guard posts (GPs) in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) as part of preliminary steps towards implementing September’s inter-Korean military agreement, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced.

Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to completely remove all GPs from the DMZ earlier in the year, in a broad military agreement signed as an annex to the Pyongyang Joint Declaration.

That agreement saw them decide to begin this process through the trial destruction of 11 GPs on both sides of the DMZ, later deciding to retain one GP on each side for “memorial” purposes.

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