WASHINGTON — The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that it is preparing to change its current restrictions on the military’s use of anti-personnel land mines, and the new policy is expected to allow the use of these weapons in more areas of potential conflict.

The anticipated change would still limit the procurement of new anti-personnel mines to those that eventually self-destruct — but notably it would allow their use outside of the Korean Peninsula, officials said.

The move would effectively cancel a 2014 policy of the Obama administration that had limited the use of anti-personnel mines to the Korean Peninsula, and continued the destruction of land-mine stockpiles not required for the defense of South Korea.

It would be the latest in a string of policy reversals made by the Trump Administration on the use of weapons that had been limited by treaties, and even condemned internationally.