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Residents in Cheorwon, the front line, who suffered heavy damage from heavy rain last month, decided to make an administrative judgment against the Ministry of National Defense.

It is said that the military is not able to detect mines even though they are not able to harvest rice because they don't know where the mines floated in heavy rain will be.



This is G1 Choi Kyung-sik.



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the middle of the rice field adjacent to the northern land, soldiers work to detect mines.



It is a method of pruning the rice rows one by one with a brush cutter and then sweeping the floor.



As it is the place where 5 mines have already emerged from the edge of the paddy field, there is tension throughout the work.



There is no way to get a penny for the damaged rice field, but I chose it because of safety.



[Cho Jong-su/Cheorwon-gun farmer: There was no department that said we would move quickly and take responsibility.

Our farmers don't want anything else.

I want to farm safely.]



Farmers in Igili, whose entire village was submerged in water, are working to harvest rice with their lives as collateral.



Residents claim that they have requested the military authorities to detect landmines several times, but refused to do so because of compensation for damage to crops.



Accordingly, the farmers in the Cheorwon region decided to request an administrative trial urging the Ministry of Defense to detect and remove landmines.



It is the Department of Defense's responsibility to protect civilians' lives and property to remove landmines and compensate for damage to crops in the process.



[Kim Jong-yeon/Cheorwon Lee Gil-li Lee: (For the loss of landmines) Why should we take responsibility?

It's very regrettable that we have to look at the damage.] In the



border area of ​​Gangwon-do, more than 220 mines, which are believed to have been lost due to heavy rains from last month to the present, have been discovered.



(Video coverage: Gwangsoo Lee G1)