首尔：韩国周二（10月20日）表示，如果朝鲜付诸威胁，加强其在边境的军事态势，韩国将采取严厉回应，此举已加剧朝鲜半岛紧张局势。
SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday (Oct 20) vowed a stern response if North Korea acts on threats to strengthen its military posture along the border, which have tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
在一份声明中，韩国国防部对平壤威胁在边境部署更多战术打击武器并恢复向韩国广播的行为表示严重关切。
In a statement, Seoul's Defence Ministry expressed grave concern over Pyongyang's threats to deploy additional tactical strike weapons along the border and resume loudspeaker broadcasts towards the South.
紧张局势升级和威胁交锋，增加了在重兵把守的边境发生冲突的可能性，并削弱了韩国总统李在明就职后不久取得的外交成果。
The escalation and exchange of threats has raised the possibility of clashes along the heavily armed border and undercuts diplomatic gains made by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung soon after he took office.
国防部表示，韩国在军事分界线（MDL）附近的广播和鸣枪警告是“合法的防御措施”，旨在防止入侵，并迫使越过分界线的朝鲜军队撤退。
The ministry said South Korea's broadcasts and warning shots near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) were a "legitimate defensive measure" aimed at preventing incursions and forcing North Korean troops who crossed the line to withdraw.
“如果朝鲜利用我们的合法措施作为借口，采取进一步挑衅行动，我们将坚决予以惩罚，”国防部表示。
"If North Korea uses our legitimate measures as a pretext to carry out further provocations, we will punish it resolutely,” the ministry said.
该部敦促平壤停止其所谓的毫无根据的主张，停止越过军事分界线的入侵行为，并回应双方就分界线分歧解决的努力。“明确的挑衅”韩国联合参谋本部议长金永胜在视察前线陆军司令部时检阅了军事准备情况，并下令开展旨在加强韩国在非军事区主动权的行动，韩国军方在另一份声明中表示。
It urged Pyongyang to stop making what it called groundless claims, halt incursions across the MDL and respond to efforts to resolve differences between the two sides over the line. "CLEAR PROVOCATION" Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jin Young-seung reviewed military readiness while visiting a frontline army command, and ordered operations aimed at strengthening Seoul’s initiative in the Demilitarised Zone, its military said in a separate statement.
“我们不能容忍朝鲜将我们的合法作战措施错误地描述为挑衅，并将加剧军事紧张局势的责任推卸给我们的军队，”金永胜表示。
"We cannot tolerate North Korea falsely characterising our legitimate operational measures as provocations and shifting responsibility for heightened military tensions onto our military,” Jin said.
他说，朝鲜应对上个月在军事分界线以南埋设地雷、导致韩国士兵重伤负责，他将该事件称为“明确的挑衅”，并称其违反了停战协定。
He said North Korea was responsible for planting landmines south of the MDL that seriously wounded South Korean soldiers last month, calling the incident “a clear provocation” and a violation of the armistice agreement.
首尔的警告是在朝鲜领导人金正恩的妹妹金与正指责韩国军方在平壤加固边境工程期间鸣枪警告，危及朝鲜士兵之后发出的。
The warnings from Seoul came after North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim Jong Un, accused the South Korean military of endangering North Korean soldiers by firing warning shots during Pyongyang’s work to fortify the border.
她威胁要恢复朝鲜的扩音器广播，这有可能扭转一项关键的缓和措施，而李在明一直将其视为其重启与平壤外交努力的早期成就。
Her threat to revive North Korean loudspeaker broadcasts risks reversing a key de-escalation measure that Lee has touted as an early achievement of his efforts to restart diplomacy with Pyongyang.
自2024年4月以来，朝鲜一直在边境沿线布设地雷和障碍物。韩国本月表示，平壤今年已向该地区派遣多达7000名工人，朝鲜人员已大约50次越过军事分界线。分析人士表示，对峙增加了军事冲突的风险。
North Korea has been installing mines and barriers along the border since April 2024. South Korea said this month that Pyongyang had deployed as many as 7,000 workers to the area this year and that North Korean personnel had crossed the MDL on about 50 occasions. Analysts said the standoff increased the risk of a military clash.
“如果朝鲜的阈值低于韩国现有的交战规则，仅仅重复当前程序就可能足以制造冲突条件，”韩国统一研究院高级研究员洪敏说。
"If North Korea’s threshold falls below South Korea’s existing rules of engagement, the simple repetition of current procedures could be enough to create the conditions for a clash,” said Hong Min, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification.
Parley Policy Institute创始主任、前联合国军官员迈克尔·博萨克表示，部队可能会将警告射击误认为未击中的攻击，从而存在“意图误判和潜在反击”的风险。
Michael Bosack, founding director of the Parley Policy Institute and a former UN Command official, said troops could mistake warning shots for missed attacks, risking “misinterpretation of intent and potential counterfires”.