In a step toward compliance with the Ottawa Convention, the United States government announced Tuesday it will no longer use anti-personnel landmines and destroy all of its existing stockpiles.

Almost.

The U.S. will not enact a total ban on the use of landmines because of what it called “unique circumstances” in one area: the Korean Peninsula.

The Ottawa Convention (officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction) requires that signatory nations stop producing and developing all anti-personnel mines, as well as destroy all those in their possession within