Incident Stays Contained

South Korea attributes the blast to a North Korean mine but avoids a kinetic response while the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United Nations Command, and forensic teams examine the site. This is the most likely path because both Koreas have repeatedly hardened the border without usually escalating every incident into direct fire.

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