South Korea is restoring 15 frontline guard posts (GP) on its side of the heavily militarized border with North Korea, according to Seoul’s defense ministry, four more than it abandoned during a thaw in inter-Korean tensions in 2018.

The ROK military plans to spend 22.8 billion won ($17 million) to restore the GPs along the demilitarized zone (DMZ), Seoul’s defense ministry said in a statement to Park Seon-won of the main opposition Democratic Party.

GPs are watchtowers located inside the DMZ and the South Korean outposts closest to North Korea.

The two Koreans agreed to destroy10 GPs each, as