The rival Koreas say they’ve exchanged warning shots near their disputed western sea boundary amid heightened animosities over North Korea’s recent barrage of weapons tests.
The rival Koreas have exchanged warning shots along their disputed western sea boundary, their militaries said, amid heightened animosities over North Korea’s recent barrage of weapons tests.
There were no reports of clashes between the Koreas, but the poorly marked sea boundary off the Korean peninsula’s west coast is a source of long-running animosities between the Koreas. It’s a scene of several bloody inter-Korean naval skirmishes and violence in recent years, including the North’s shelling of a South Korean island and its alleged torpedoing of a South Korean navy ship that killed a total of 50 people in 2010.
In its Monday statement, the General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army accused South Korea of provoking animosities near the land border as well with its own artillery tests and propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts. South Korea has already confirmed it performed artillery firings last week as part of its regular military exercises, but didn’t immediately respond to the North’s claim on the loudspeaker broadcasts.
“Pyongyang’s politics of blaming external threats and projecting confidence in military capabilities can motivate greater risk-taking,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korean probing of South Korean perimeter defenses could lead to a serious exchange of fire and unintended escalation.”The missile launches were largely designed to protest U.S.-South Korean trainings near the Korean peninsula that involved a U.S.
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