2024-01-07 09:19:11
– New North Korean shots near the border with the South
For the third consecutive day, Pyongyang carried out live ammunition exercises near South Korean islands on Sunday.
Published today at 10:19 a.m.
People watch a television screen broadcasting a news bulletin with images of North Korea’s artillery fire, at a train station in Seoul, January 6, 2024.
JUNG YEON-JE/AFP
North Korea is conducting live ammunition artillery drills on Sunday for the third day in a row on its west coast, near the maritime border with South Korea, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
“North Korean cannon fire is currently being heard,” say these messages, which advise residents against “outside activities” and raise the possibility of a response from South Korean forces.
According to Yonhap, no projectiles fell on the South Korean side of the maritime demarcation line.
On Friday, residents of Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong, another South Korean island located close to North Korea, were ordered to evacuate to shelters due to North Korean artillery fire in the surrounding waters . More than 200 shells were fired, according to Seoul, whose army responded with a live-fire exercise a few hours later in Yeonpyeong.
And on Saturday, the South Korean military announced that North Korea had fired 60 shells into the waters near Yongpyeong, near the maritime demarcation line.
Pyongyang’s denial
North Korea, however, provided another version for Saturday’s shootings. According to Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, these were in fact explosive charges simulating the sound of a cannon, which North Korean forces detonated to test the South Korean reaction .
“Our army did not fire a single shell into the water,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement released Sunday by the official North Korean agency KCNA.
“The rogue ROK military took the lure we set,” she added. Before ironically: “in the future, they will even mistake the rumble of thunder in the northern sky for artillery fire from our army.”
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