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The military understands that over 800,000 landmines have been buried across the country, mainly in the DMZ.
The SBS reporter team accompany the professional mine detection work, but a lot of mines were also found in the place where all mines were removed.
Reporter Hak-Hwi Kim conducted on-site coverage.
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At a mountain in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, experts are working on mine detection.
M7 mines, also known as 'Lunch mines'.
It is an area where civilians can freely move in and out.
More than 10 anti-personnel mines were found in less than an hour after the mine detection operation began.
However, this is an area where the military authorities even put up a notice board indicating that the mine removal operation was completed in 2013.
[Kim Ki-ho/Director of the Korea Mine Removal Research Institute: If you say that you are using this as agricultural land, then you go into the forkrain and work, and then the risk of an accident is very high.]
This time, I detected a mine in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, north of the Civilian Access Control Line.
[Everything goes on, the whole thing rings.]
A pile of anti-tank mines are discovered.
It is a place where the landmines discovered by the residents are buried together, and it is called a 'mine graveyard'.
Under current law, civilians cannot clear landmines.
The military has deployed an engineer unit to remove mines, but since 2010, only 4,623 mines have been removed.
[Kim Byung-joo / National Assembly National Defense Commissioner: Only the military can remove landmines by law.
As a result, the military's manpower is insufficient.] The
government announced that it would propose a bill within this year that would allow private professional organizations to perform mine removal on their behalf.
SBS reporters approached the scene after the experts finished detecting the area, and then reported the mine discovery to the police and military authorities.
Military authorities immediately took control of the area and began clearing mines.