{"id":46152,"date":"2025-04-11T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46152"},"modified":"2025-04-11T04:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:19:01","slug":"south-korean-helicopters-fight-wildfire-along-heavily-armed-border-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46152","title":{"rendered":"South Korean helicopters fight wildfire along heavily armed border with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea sent two helicopters to battle a wildfire inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul\u2019s military said Friday, adding it had warned North Korea in advance of its firefighting mission along the heavily armed border area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blaze in the east of the DMZ dividing the Koreas comes just weeks after South Korea suffered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/31\/asia\/south-korea-fires-arrest-intl-hnk\/index.html\">record deadly wildfires<\/a>&nbsp;in the country\u2019s southeast that forced communities to evacuate and destroyed thousands of structures, including a centuries-old Buddhist temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea\u2019s military aired broadcasts to North Korea to warn people there about the helicopters early Friday, Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur military is maintaining readiness while closely monitoring North Korean activities,\u201d the Joint Chiefs added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what caused the fire, which started Thursday afternoon in South Korea\u2019s eastern Goseong county, Gangwon province, according to authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Korea Forest Service said the blaze had been about half extinguished as of Friday morning, while the military said firefighting efforts were \u201cproceeding smoothly\u201d and there had been no damage to South Korean personnel or facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp; South Korea sent two helicopters to battle a wildfire inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul\u2019s military said Friday, adding it had warned North Korea in advance of its firefighting mission along the heavily armed border area. The blaze in the east of the DMZ dividing the Koreas comes just weeks after South Korea suffered&nbsp;record deadly wildfires&nbsp;in the country\u2019s southeast that forced communities to evacuate and destroyed thousands of structures, including a centuries-old Buddhist temple. South Korea\u2019s military aired broadcasts to North Korea to warn people there about the helicopters early Friday, Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. \u201cOur&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46154,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152\/revisions\/46154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}