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North Korea shot today artillery shots near the maritime border with South Korea, after conducting similar exercises the day before, the South Korean authorities were forced evacuate two
North Korea shot today artillery shots near the maritime border with South Korea, after conducting similar exercises the day before, the South Korean authorities were forced evacuate two islands and answer with live fire exercises.
North Korean Army He fired “more than 60 shots.” towards the northwestern waters of Yeonpyeong Island between 16:00 and 17:00 local time,” the agency said in a statement. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) South.
Pyongyang’s ongoing live-fire maneuvers along the sea divide “are threat to peace in Korean Peninsula and increase tensions,” the JCS said, which also called on the North “stop immediately” these exercises.
The South Korean army also threatened “take action” if the North continues its provocations or puts the citizens of the South at risk, although for now does not plan to respond again with its own maneuvers live fire, a spokesman for local news agency Yonhap said.
This new episode underlines the panorama of greater instability that is opening up in the region after the northern regime announced in November that suspended performance Bilateral military agreement 2018 which, among other things, prohibited live-fire exercises.
On the eve of the government Yeonpyeong (115 kilometers west of Seoul and only 10 from the coast of North Korea) and Baengnyeong (South Korea’s westernmost island, located about 20 kilometers off the northern coast) issued two notices to its residents to relocate to emergency shelters due to North Korean artillery maneuvers.
In addition, the South Korean army fired at several 400 artillery rounds against a conditional target at sea during exercises involving K9 self-propelled guns and K1E1 tanks.
Both islands are located before sunset Northern boundary line (NLL), which is controversial sea border between the two Koreas in the Yellow Sea (called the Western Sea by Pyongyang and Seoul), which was the scene of numerous clashes between neighboring countries that over the past 25 years they have left about a hundred dead on both sides, mostly military.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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