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South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff told the National Assembly's intelligence and defence committee last month that North Korea has laid an estimated 960,000 land mines in the Demilitarized Zone since 2024, according to Voice of America, which cited the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. If confirmed, the Campaign said the scale could be the world's largest mine-laying since 2001. The excerpt gives no further detail on the locations or on any response from Pyongyang.