SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea (news - web sites)'s frontline military units have been put on their highest state of alert over fears that North Korean commandos may have entered the South through the heavily fortified border, defense officials said.
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Troops conducted a massive manhunt for possible infiltrators and stepped up security checks on roads north of Seoul after the breach, they said.
Hwang Jung-Sun, deputy chief of military operations bureau at the Joint Chiefs of Staff office said a small hole was made by a cutter overnight in a wire fence on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the two Koreas since the 1950-1953 Korean War.
"The military in engaging in investigations and operations with various possibilities in mind," Hwang told a news conference, refusing to elaborate.
But Hwang did not rule out the possibility of an "infiltration by the enemy" into South Korea.
