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North Korea mobilized regarding 10 military planes last night to approach the no-fly zone and then fired artillery fire into the buffer zone established by the September 19 inter-Korean military agreement, military authorities said.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “Today, we caught artillery fire from Majang-dong, Hwanghae Province for 5 minutes from 1:20 a.m. to the West Sea, and from 2:57 a.m. to the East Sea from Gueup-ri, Gangwon-do for 10 minutes.” It is a maritime buffer zone according to the military agreement.”
“The artillery firing in the maritime buffer zone in the East and West Seas is a clear violation of the 9/19 military agreement,” he said, adding, “We believe that no camel has been observed in our territorial waters.”
“North Korea detected a short-range ballistic missile launched into the East Sea from the Sunan area of Pyongyang around 1:49 am this morning,” it said. I did.
“The launch of short-range ballistic missiles is also a violation of UN Security Council resolutions,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Earlier, from 10:30 last night to 0:20 this morning, regarding 10 North Korean military aircraft descended to the tactical action line set by the South Korean military in preparation for an emergency and flew a threat, and the military responded by sending fighters such as F-35A. .
The North Korean People’s Army General Staff spokesperson said, “The South Korean military fired artillery fire in the forward area for regarding 10 hours yesterday.”
Kim Seung-gyeom, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a joint meeting with the commander of the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command Paul Lacamera to check the combined defense posture, and added that the military is tracking and monitoring related trends in case of further provocations.
