Pyongyang maintains a more military exercises with artillery fire on the disputed maritime border with South Korea from. A similar maneuver in March led to an exchange of fire between the armies.

North Korea’s military has begun new shooting exercises near the disputed maritime border with South Korea in the Yellow Sea. North Korea had the South previously informed that the exercises would take place north of the sea border in two areas, told South Korea’s General Staff.

The maneuver began at about 14 clock local time (7 clock CEST) . So far, no strikes south of the border had been reported , a South Korean military spokesman .
North Korea had been warned of strict reactions in the event that artillery shells should fall on South Korean territory . Fighter jets and warships of the South Korean armed forces were in readiness to respond to any provocations , it said the South Korean General Staff .

In the lake region are also several South Korean islands. The local residents had been asked by the military to seek refuge in shelters.

End of March, both sides had after North Korean firing exercises delivered to the maritime border exchanged fire . Hundreds of bullets were fired there and landed in the sea .

It is a new provocation from Pyongyang. North Korea’s propaganda machine ran during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama in the region , which went on Tuesday to end at full speed.

Thus, state media reported about , leader Kim Jong Un had asked the army of the country to develop themselves in order to win any confrontation with the U.S. can . The state’s ” Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland” compared South Korea’s President Park Geun Hye and Obama with a prostitute and her pimp powerful – even for North Korean standards this was a remarkable word choice.

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