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North Korea held this Sunday multiple shots fired at South Korea at the height of the demilitarized zone that divides the peninsula, prompting a response from the South Korean army, Seoul announced.
A South Korean guard post was hit by several shots from the North this Sunday morning but there have been no casualties in the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated, adding that they responded with “two series of shots and a warning message. “
Until midnight, what happened was not known in depth, so from Seoul they indicated that “measures are being taken through the inter-Korean communication channels to understand the situation in detail and avoid additional incidents.”
“We also maintain a necessary posture of military preparation”They added in a public statement quoted by Yonhap, South Korea’s leading news agency.
The events follow almost two days after the reappearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who made his first appearance in the country’s state media on Friday, after being absent from the public eye for almost three weeks, which triggered the rumors about his state of health.
He had last been seen in public on April 11, when he chaired a meeting of the Workers’ Party.
To this is added the escalation of tension between the two nations, after Yonhap reported in late April a unusual movement of North Korean planes.
“North Korea was intensifying military tensions through an unusual increase in inspection activities for its position of combat readiness, mainly of its artillery, and the flight operations of its Air Force aircraft,” said the Defense Minister of South Korea, Jeong Kyeong-doo.
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