Following the demolition of the Northern Transmission Line, the transmission tower also collapsed...Until the crash.

[Anchor]
Some transmission towers were seen collapsing as North Korea began demolishing high-voltage lines between the transmission towers of the Kaesong Industrial Complex that we built.

In particular, the scene of the worker climbing to a high transmission tower without any safety equipment and falling down was captured.

I'm reporter Lee Jong Won.

[Reporter]
It's the northern section of the Gyeongui Line across the Military Demarcation Line.

The two transmission towers, which were standing intact, collapse to the side in an instant.

In another transmission tower, people who appeared to be working were also seen falling down.

This is the North's image that was recently captured in our surveillance assets.

[Nam Ki-soo / Head of Public Affairs Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff: The number of transmission towers north of the Gyeongui Line MDL has been overturned. The South Korean military is keeping a close eye on North Korea's developments....]

The transmission facilities were built by Korea Electric Power Corporation and have served to supply electricity to the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

However, following North Korea's nuclear test in 2016, the power supply was once suspended, and the North's unilateral bombing of the Joint Inter-Korean Liaison Office in June 2020 completely halted the power supply.

However, following North Korea's demolition last month by cutting a high-voltage line between the transmission towers, which are South Korea's assets, some of the transmission towers were also seen collapsing.

For now, the government and the military believe that the unbalanced transmission tower collapsed as the wires were cut off.

In addition, the North Korean military's outdated working environment working on high transmission towers without any safety equipment at the time seems to have eventually led to the crash.

The demolition of transmission facilities appears to be an extension of the inter-Korean disconnection project that followed Kim Jong-un's declaration of "two hostile countries," and remains an example of North Korea's insensitivity to safety in disregard of human rights.

I'm YTN's Lee Jong Won.


Filmmaker: Woo Young-taek
Video editing: Ma Young-hoo