File image: The South Korean army's self-propelled artillery vehicles take part in a military exercise near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Yangju, South Korea, May 25, 2022.File image: The South Korean army's self-propelled artillery vehicles take part in a military exercise near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Yangju, South Korea, May 25, 2022.
North Korea fired 10 shells of multiple rocket launchers at around 5:15 am after the South Korean military fired warning shots at around 3:50 am citing patrol activities, a spokesman for the General Staff of the North’s 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 10 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.