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China deploys PLA to guard North Korean, Myanmar borders
Beijing, Sept 16: China today confirmed that it has completed deployment of the People`s Liberation Army (PLA) forces along its land borders with North Korea and Myanmar in an effort to streamline the management model of the country`s vast frontiers.
Beijing, Sept 16: China today confirmed that it has completed deployment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces along its land borders with North Korea and Myanmar in an effort to streamline the management model of the country's vast frontiers.
"The shift of defence forces has been completed and it is a normal adjustment," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan said in response to a question at a news briefing.
Kong said that the country's land borders with North Korea and the Yunnan province section frontier with Myanmar would now be guarded by the PLA instead of frontier guards. He said, the deployment started from September 01, 2003 under which the border between China and North Korea and the section of the border with Myanmar in southwest China's Yunnan province would be shifted from frontier guards to the PLA. "It has been decided by the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China to unify the management model of the land borders of the country," he said without providing details of the troop movement and deployment.
Kong's remarks follows Hong Kong news reports that 150,000 PLA troops have been sent to the border since mid-August to stem rampant illegal border crossings by North Korean refugees and crime by North Korean soldiers. The Chinese troop deployment along the North Korean border comes at a time when Pyongyang is engaged in a dangerous stand-off with Washington on its suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Bureau Report
Kong said that the country's land borders with North Korea and the Yunnan province section frontier with Myanmar would now be guarded by the PLA instead of frontier guards. He said, the deployment started from September 01, 2003 under which the border between China and North Korea and the section of the border with Myanmar in southwest China's Yunnan province would be shifted from frontier guards to the PLA. "It has been decided by the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China to unify the management model of the land borders of the country," he said without providing details of the troop movement and deployment.
Kong's remarks follows Hong Kong news reports that 150,000 PLA troops have been sent to the border since mid-August to stem rampant illegal border crossings by North Korean refugees and crime by North Korean soldiers. The Chinese troop deployment along the North Korean border comes at a time when Pyongyang is engaged in a dangerous stand-off with Washington on its suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Bureau Report