Her artillery North Korea fired today into the maritime “neutral zone” near the border with South Korea, South Korea announced army.
The North Koreans military men simultaneously launched at 14:59 (07:59 Greek time) about 130 artillery shots from two different positions, one in the eastern part of the Sea of Japan and the other in the western Yellow Seathe general staff of the South Korean armed forces said in a statement.
The general staff called these shots “clear violation” of the military agreement concluded in 2018 between Seoul and Pyongyang. With this agreement, a “neutral zone” from both sides of the inter-Korean sea border, where naval exercises and firing are prohibited real ammunition so as to limit the risks of one episode.
No shells fell on the South Korean side of the border, the general staff said.
Pyongyang has carried out repeatedly in recent months artillery fire to the “neutral zone,” at a time when tensions have risen on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea has also gone on a record series of launches in recent weeks rockets and Seoul and Washington attribute to it the intention to soon carry out one nuclear testwhich would be her seventh in history and her first since 2017.
Pyongyang which, according to the decisions of its Security Council UNdoes not have the right to conduct ballistic missile tests, argues that the tests are in response to the large-scale military exercises conducted in the region by South Korea, the United States and Japan.
Source: News Beast
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