JCS confirms revised MDL rule amid rise in North Korean incursions

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed Monday that frontline units received a revised internal guideline on how to determine Military Demarcation Line violations, amid a recent rise in North Korean troop incursions inside the Demilitarized Zone. The guideline circulated in September allows the military to apply a line drawn farther south in cases where South Korean military maps and United Nations Command standards do not align. At a regular Defense Ministry briefing, JCS spokesperson Col