North Korean media said Friday that workers building apartments in Pyongyang’s capital found more than 110 bombs, artillery shells, mines, grenades, and other explosives that the U.S. made during the Korean War.
Reuters, citing KCNA, said that Pyongyang’s Public Security Bureau experts tested and defused the bombs.
The report said, “Explosives were found at a Hwaseong, North Korea house-building site. They were rusted, but they could have exploded at any time.”
Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, has started a project to build 50,000 new apartments in Pyongyang. This is part of his plan to improve the poor living conditions in his country.
North Korea’s economy has been hurt by its border closures to stop the spread of New Crown pneumonia, natural disasters, and international sanctions on its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The U.S. says North Korea’s policies have taken away from the small amount of money that could be used to meet people’s needs.
North and South Koreans have been in danger for a long time because of explosives left over from the 1950–1953 Korean War. Over the past few years, experts from the Weapons Contamination Team of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have taught North Korean teams how to get rid of bombs.
Researchers in the United States say that during the Korean War, U.S. warplanes attacked large parts of North Korea and dropped more bombs than the U.S. did on the Pacific theatre of operations during World War II.
North Korea has talked a lot about the bombing campaign and other attacks from the time in its education and government messages for a long time.
KCNA said in a report on Friday, “Army and civilian builders saw explosives being thrown away and deeply disliked U.S. imperialism.”
