The two Koreas successfully implement a historic Comprehensive Military Agreement.
As of Thursday, November 1, the major provisions of the September 19 inter-Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA) took effect. The land-, sea-, and air-based tension-reduction measures took effect, with both countries taking steps as required by the agreement to prevent the odds of an accidental clash.
Per the agreement, the two sides will create a five-kilometer buffer zone—including a no-fly zone, with some exceptions—to decrease the probability of hostile incidents. Furthermore, the two sides will take measures to stop artillery and other training exercises along the Military Demarcation Line, the armistice line that has separated the two Koreas since 1953.
At sea, the two sides have moved to cover the barrels of their coastal artillery batteries and ship guns. To manage tensions in the East and West seas, the two have agreed to, starting Thursday, cease any and all live-fire and “maritime maneuver exercises” within specially designated zones.
The aerial provisions that went into effect on Thursday include a ban on live-fire drills involving any fixed-wing military aircraft and the firing of any air-to-ground ordnance within the designated no-fly zone.
