North Korea sends more than 20 hovercraft to the front line

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on August 24 that North Korea confirmed that its strategic landing ships - one of the three core forces of its military - had left their bases to go to the front line after declaring a state of war on August 20.

South Korean military outposts (below) and North Korean military outposts (above) seen from the border city of Paju on August 21. Photo: AFP/TTXVN

Military sources said North Korea has deployed more than 20 hovercraft to the coast of Nampo in the western sea area of ​​the peninsula, since Pyongyang declared a state of war.

The ships, from the Cheolsan military base in North Pyeongan Province, were ordered to move more than 60 kilometers north toward the Northern Limit Line (NLL) between the two Koreas.

According to Vietnam+