North and South Korea OPEN FIRE with warning shots and rockets in huge escalation
NORTH and South Korea have opened fire with warning shots and artillery rockets amid boiling tensions between the two states.
An earlier clash between the two at their disputed maritime border caused North Korea to fire ten artillery rockets off its west coast early on Monday.Credit: AFP or licensors AFP OR LICENSORSKim Jong-un previously fired missiles in a "clear warning to enemies"South Korean military had fired warning shots at a North Korean boat that crossed the two Koreas' maritime border at 3.50 am, North Korea's official KCNA said.
In response, North Korea fired ten shells from multiple rocket launchers at around 5:15 am a spokesman for the General Staff of the North Korean People's Army said. The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it sent back a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the Northern Limit Line , the de facto sea boundary between the two Koreas.
"The General Staff of the Korean People's Army ... ordered to fire ten shots from multiple rocket launchers to sternly send back the enemy's vessel," the North Korean spokesman said in a statement carried by the KCNA.
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