South Korea military says North Korea fired some 200 artillery shells off western coast, orders evacuation on two islands
Seoul [South Korea], January 5 (ANI): South Korea's military said North Korea fired some 200 artillery shells into waters off its western coast on Friday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported. | After North Korea's move, an emergency evacuation order for civilians on the South Korea's border islands of Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong was issued. Furthermore, the South Korean military conducted live-fire artillery drills. ● The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the artillery firings from Jangsan Cape, north of South Korea's Baengnyeong, and Deungsan Cape, north of South Korea's Yeonpyeong, from 9 am to 11 am (local time). ● The shells crossed into the maritime buffer zone north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border. The buffer zone was set under an inter-Korean military accord signed on September 19, 2018, in order to reduce border tensions, according to Yonhap News Agency report.
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