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A landmine will cost about $50 due to the deals the DoD has with the miltary industrialists.
They buy them in the thousands.
The US is the only nation that can and does, accurately map the location of their mines.
The big problem is the indiscriminate laying of mines during civil war and guerrilla wars.
In countries where people will kill you and your family because of your ethnicity or religion, you can be sure they have no concerns about lying any number of mines where you work or play.
When used as a denial munition as in the Korean border, they do not interfere with people in their daily lives. You wouldn't find any farmers there any way.
If they were not there, we would hear daily about US casualties on that border due to confusion, road accidents, mistaken identity etc. You would also have a much higher chance of starting conflict with a nation that has acknowleged the posession of nuclear and chemical weapons and unlike Saddam, has the ability to deploy and use them. I can understand not giving up mines for that reason.
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