2024-01-07 12:13:33
North Korea is carrying out new live ammunition artillery exercises on Sunday, January 7, for the third day in a row, on its west coast, near the maritime border with South Korea. announced the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Local authorities on remote South Korean islands in the Yellow Sea near the North Korean coast told Agence France-Presse that they had sent messages to residents’ mobile phones urging them to stay home. “North Korean cannon fire is currently being heard”say these messages, which advise residents against “outside activities” and raise the possibility of a response from South Korean forces.
According to Yonhap, no projectiles fell on the South Korean side of the maritime demarcation line.
Evacuation order Friday
On Friday, residents of Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong, another South Korean island located close to North Korea, were ordered to evacuate to shelters due to North Korean artillery fire in the surrounding waters . More than 200 shells were fired, according to Seoul, whose army responded with a live-fire exercise a few hours later in Yeonpyeong.
And on Saturday, the South Korean military announced that North Korea had fired sixty shells into the waters near Yongpyeong, near the maritime demarcation line.
North Korea, however, provided another version for Saturday’s shootings. According to Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, these were actually explosive charges simulating the sound of a cannon, which North Korean forces detonated to test the reaction South Korean.
“Our army did not fire a single shell into the water. The rogue ROK military took the lure we set”she said, before ironically: “In the future, they will even mistake the rumble of thunder in the northern sky for artillery fire from our army. »
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