They never said they're only using landmines for that, but they said that's why they won't sign the treaty. If they would just add the Korean exception into the bill, everything would be fine. I honestly don't know why they don't just add that clause.
And yes, I'm sure North Korea has an army like that. Especially with how fucking crazy their leader is.
I imagine it's because adding exceptions is a slippery slope. What happens when another country is in the same situation, will they write in exceptions for other countries? What if the Americans/Israelis wanted to use landmines to keep the Palestinians at bay? Write another exception? I think it totally defeat the purpose of the bill.
I doubt that landmines would stop them if North Korea wanted to attach that badly. But I'm imagining a bunch of Koreans standing just behind the minefield, walking back and forth like broken AI in games.
If kids play ON them, well, then yeah...DUH they're gonna pop. Also, if kids play on chemical weapons its possible that they end up purple and dead.
Come on, use your brain, please! You don't go to a war-torn country and put landmines in their sheds. You bury them, so that when people (be it army, civilian, children, etc) walk on them, they blow up. Chemical weapons, while also a horrible thing, aren't used that way. You don't bury a can of mustard gas and have it trigger when somebody steps on it (if they did, that would be a landmine).