60 artillery shells fired by the North Korean army towards the sea border with South Korea
| As tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang continue, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on Saturday that North Korea had fired 60 artillery shells near the coast of the country's two islands. |
According to Fars International News Agency, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on Saturday that North Korean forces fired more than 60 artillery shells in the northwest of Yunpyong Island. /p>
according to “Agence France-Presse” South Korea’s military said on Saturday that repeated artillery fire by North Korea is a threat to peace on the Korean Peninsula and is escalating tensions.
On Friday, North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two sparsely populated islands south of the maritime border between the two countries.
Pyongyang had previously warned against holding a joint exercise between Washington and Seoul in the region and called it provocative.
North Korea announced that the direct firing maneuvers did not have an indirect effect on the border islands either.
In 2010, in response to South Korea’s maneuver near the maritime border with live ammunition, North Korea bombarded the island of Yeonpyeong.
This is the first It was an attack on a civilian area since the Korean War. Since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came to power, relations between the two Koreas have reached one of their lowest levels in recent decades.
Kim in meetings Recently, he has warned against a nuclear attack on South Korea and demanded an increase in the country’s military arsenal. accused of providing Russia with ballistic missiles and rocket launchers used in recent attacks on Ukraine. Washington called this move an escalation of Pyongyang’s support for Moscow. Nine treaties concluded The disputed maritime boundaries between Seoul and Pyongyang have never been officially defined.
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