A 50-year-old veteran who disappeared with a hand grenade, saying he would kill his ex-wife's boyfriend, was arrested here Wednesday, police said.
  

The Cheorwon Police Station reported that they arrested the retired soldier, surnamed Lee, at 7:08 a.m. on a mountain in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, 88 kilometers northeast of Seoul, after receiving a report from a mountain climber. The hand grenade in Lee's possession was also reclaimed safely.
  

Lee, while drunk, allegedly had a quarrel with his ex-wife at her house on Tuesday and threatened her, showing a bag filled with grenades. Lee then left the house with one hand grenade, saying he would kill her boyfriend, according to the police.
  

In the bag, which was left at the house, eight hand grenades were found, police said.
  

During the police investigation, Lee said he found them near the civilian control area while digging up mushrooms and kept the grenades to later report to the authorities.
  

The South Korean military has limited entry into the civilian control zone, a border area south of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) -- a 4-kilometer-wide and 250-km-long strip of land separating the two Koreas.
  

Police and military authorities are investigating how the grenades came to be in the zone.  (Yonhap)