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South Korea on Monday ordered border propaganda operations against North Korea to resume for the first time in 11 years, in retaliation for landmine blasts that maimed two of its soldiers during a frontier patrol.

One of the soldiers lost both legs, while the other lost one leg.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the border guard the demilitarized zone that bisects the peninsula, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

South Korea has ramped up border security in the wake of the blasts and – after a break of more than a decade – resumed the broadcast of propaganda messages into the North, using batteries of powerful loudspeakers set up at several sites along the border.

South Korean officials said on Monday North Korean intruders planted three land mines on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone – including one that exploded last Tuesday injuring two soldiers.

South Korea has resume propoganda broadcasts across its border with the North, in retaliation for an alleged land mine attack.

(CNN) – The South Korean military has warned North Korea of a “harsh” response to landmine blasts that seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers last week in the demilitarized zone.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has denied a South Korean news report that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may visit North Korea for talks with leader Kim Jong Un.

“One lost both legs in the first blast, involving two mines”, the newspaper notes, “The other soldier lost one leg in a second explosion as he tried to help his wounded colleague to safety”.