North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire near a disputed border on Monday following a military exercise by the North that reportedly dropped hundreds of shells in South Korean waters.
Reuters reports that
From NBC News:
According to media reports, the North fired roughly 500 artillery shells, 100 of which landed in the South’s territory. The South shot back with 300 shells.
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“Some (North Korean) artillery fire landed in (the) southern part of Northern Limit Line but in the water,” CNN quotes a South Korean Ministry of Defense spokesman as saying. “We counter-fired over the Northern Limit Line,” the official said.
The Northern Limit Line (NLL) is a disputed border line between the North and South, and, as Tim Beal, author of North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power, wrote in 2012, the NLL “is a problem.” Beal continued:
No shots fired Monday targeted any land or military installations, an unnamed official with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Associated Press.
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