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<\/p>\nCHILLING pictures have shown Kim Jong Un's troops massing at the Korean border after scrapping their peace deal with South Korea.<\/p>\n
It comes after Pyongyang's launch of a spy satellite last week stoked tensions on the peninsula and prompted Seoul to partially suspend the agreement.<\/p>\n
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But Pyongyang has since scrapped the pact entirely, warning it would "never be bound" by the deal again.<\/p>\n
As a result, North Korean troops have been pouring into the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) to restore guard posts taken down under the 2018 agreement, Seoul's military said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Yonhap News Agency also reported that North Korean soldiers were "seen rebuilding the guard posts from Friday", according to a military official.<\/p>\n
It was added that all 11 posts withdrawn under the five-year-old deal were expected to be restored.<\/p>\n
One photo released by South Korea's military shows four North Korean soldiers rebuilding a wooden guard post in the DMZ that separates the two countries.<\/p>\n According to military sources in North Korea, troops have been placed under shoot-to-kill orders, as reported by Daily NK.<\/p>\n Ministry officials disclosed photos showing the troops carrying what appeared to be recoilless guns and standing guard at night.<\/p>\n North Korea's accelerated development of its weapons programmes has already previously alarmed Seoul.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n South Korea deployed "surveillance and reconnaissance assets" to the border after the satellite launch, in what its military said was an "essential measure" to defend against North Korea's growing threats.<\/p>\n In response, Pyongyang said it would "deploy more powerful armed forces and new-type military hardware in the region along the Military Demarcation Line" between the two Korea's.<\/p>\n Nuclear-armed North Korea is barred by successive rounds of UN resolutions from tests using ballistic technology.<\/p>\n Analysts say there is significant technological overlap between space launch capabilities and the development of ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n Last week's launch of the "Malligyong-1" was Pyongyang's third attempt at securing a military eye in the sky after two failures in May and August.<\/p>\n The launch drew condemnation from the international community, including the United States and South Korea, for its "destabilising effect on the region".<\/p>\n Pyongyang said its launch was a "legitimate and just exercise of the right to self-defence", according to a foreign ministry statement run by KCNA on Monday.<\/p>\n Successfully putting a spy satellite into orbit would improve North Korea's intelligence-gathering capabilities, particularly over South Korea, and provide crucial data in any military conflict, experts say.<\/p>\n In a visit to the Pyongyang space control centre on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed "great satisfaction" at the preparations for the satellite's reconnaissance mission.<\/p>\n The expedition is expected to begin on December 1, KCNA said in a separate report.<\/p>\n Kim also reviewed a batch of satellite photos of the US Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, as well as the Italian capital Rome.<\/p>\n It is the latest in a series of North Korean reports purporting Kim has reviewed satellite imagery, though Pyongyang has not publicly disclosed it.<\/p>\n Pyongyang previously claimed, within hours of the launch, that Kim was shown photos of US military bases in Guam taken by the satellite.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/newspress-collage-v5ua4csy7-1701069575416.jpg\")
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