URGENT: South Korea stages live fire drills on border island: Yonhap

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People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea’s artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on January 5, 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands on January 5, Seoul’s defence ministry said, with an evacuation order issued for residents on one of them. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)


SEOUL, Jan 5, 2024 (AFP) – South Korean marines on the border island of Yeonpyeong conducted live-fire artillery drills Friday, the Yonhap news agency reported, hours after North Korea staged an artillery barrage in the area.

The troops held “live-fire artillery drills with K9 self-propelled howitzers,” Yonhap said, the first such drills in the area since both countries dropped a military accord in November.

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