President Park Geun-hye visited two soldiers in the hospital, Sunday, after they were maimed in a land mine explosion that was blamed on North Korea.

The staff sergeants, surnamed Kim and Ha, lost parts of their legs in the Aug. 4 explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas.

Park visited them at their respective hospitals just outside Seoul and again expressed her thanks for their courage and patriotism, Cheong Wa Dae said.

"As the wounded soldiers are now being treated in a stable condition, President Park made a visit to again express her thanks to the servicemen who modeled the spirit of a soldier," a Cheong Wa Dae official said.

It was Park's first official function since returning from a visit to China on Friday.

A South Korean investigation concluded that the mines were planted by the North, leading to an escalation of military tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The two Koreas defused the tensions through a landmark agreement on Aug. 25, which included North Korea's expression of "regret" over the injuries. (Yonhap)