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North Korea again fires shells near South Korea.

2024-01-06 14:51:42, Kosova & Bota CNA
North Korea again fires shells near South Korea.
Artillery units of the North Korean army during military exercises in 2022.

North Korea's military fired more than 60 artillery shells near Jeonpeong Island on January 6, the military in Seoul said. This announcement comes a day after the two Koreas conducted military exercises in the same area near the maritime border between the two countries.

"North Korean forces have fired over 600 shells from northwest Jeonpeong Island," the South Korean military said in a statement.

On Friday, North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near Jeonpyeong and Baengnjeong, two sparsely populated islands located south of the de facto maritime border that separates the two states.

Residents of the two islands were ordered to evacuate after one of the most serious military escalations on the peninsula since North Korea fired missiles at one of the two islands in 2010.

Missiles fired by North Korea yesterday and today fell within the demilitarized zone established under a 2018 de-escalation agreement, but that pact was broken in November last year after the North launched a spy satellite. .

Seoul's military said on Saturday that " repeated artillery fire from North Korea poses a threat to peace on the Korean Peninsula and escalates tensions."

South Korea has issued a "strong warning" and called on the North to immediately stop these actions. Jugu said that the army will take the necessary measures "to protect our country".

Relations between the two Koreas are at their lowest point in decades after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un enshrined the country's status as a nuclear power in the country's constitution and went ahead with testing several advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The two states are technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended without a cease-fire and without a treaty, and most of the border between the states is heavily fortified, while the maritime border has never been officially defined./ REL





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