North Korea fired about one hundred artillery shells into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) from a place close to the military demarcation line on Monday, the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported, citing a South Korean military official.
"North Korea has been firing about 100 artillery shells toward northeast from a place hundreds of meters off the demilitarized zone from 11:53 a.m. (0253 GMT)," the official was quoted as saying. "The shells have fallen to the sea, 1 or 8 kilometers north of the Northern Limit Line on the East Sea (Sea of Japan)." The North's live-fire artillery exercise is under way, said the official, adding the North's artillery shells have not fallen into the southern part of the limited line.
The two Koreas are technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a ceasefire, without parties signing a peace treaty.