Three South Korean islands evacuated residents into bomb shelters on Friday, as Pyongyang and Seoul both conducted live fire exercises close to their disputed maritime border.
North Korea fired more than 200 rounds of artillery shells into waters west of the Korean peninsula, targeting an area that had been designated a maritime buffer zone under a military agreement that collapsed last year.
“This is a provocative act that threatens peace on the Korean peninsula and escalates tensions after North Korea unilaterally insisted on destroying the Comprehensive Military Agreement,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
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