Conflicts
South Korea: New firing exercises by North Korea at sea border
A news broadcast shows an archive image of a North Korean military exercise on a monitor in Seoul Station. Tensions on the Koran Peninsula have recently worsened. photo
© Ahn Young-joon/AP/dpa
The Korean peninsula is not calming down. North Korea is once again conducting shooting exercises at the disputed inter-Korean maritime border. South Korean islanders should stay indoors as a precaution.
New firing exercises by the North Korean military near the disputed inter-Korean maritime border have taken place South Korea caused unrest again. The residents of South Korean islands near the border off the west coast have been asked by authorities not to move outdoors as a precaution, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
According to the South Korean General Staff, the military in North Korea conducted artillery exercises again. Around 90 shells fell into the water north of the maritime boundary line in the Yellow Sea. They didn’t cause any damage.
Shooting exercises on Friday and Saturday
According to South Korea, North Korea had already fired artillery shells into a military buffer zone in the Yellow Sea on Friday and Saturday. South Korea accused its largely isolated neighboring country of further escalating tensions.
On Friday, South Korea’s military responded to North Korea’s firing of around 200 grenades into the Yellow Sea with its own firing exercises on two islands near the border.
The area around the maritime border has been the scene of repeated battles between warships from both countries in the past. The so-called Northern Limit Line (NLL), which was drawn unilaterally by a UN command after the Korean War (1950-53), is not recognized by North Korea.