In a move that could increase tensions on the coast, South Korea’s military claimed it fired warning shots after some North Korean military recently crossed the border on Sunday.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported in a media briefing on Tuesday that many of the North Vietnamese soldiers were armed, but many also had products for repair job. The JCS did not disclose how many troops and shots fired when the split was breached.
Yonhap News cited a JCS official who was unidentified as saying that more than 10 troops had flown into North Korean place for a short while before crossing the line for a few hundred yards.
The incident occurred just before the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who was quoted by the media as saying Pyongyang planned sanctions against South Korea after it resumed loudspeaker channels over the weekend for the first time in decades, indicating an intensification of conflicts along one of the most military borders in the world.
Tensions grew in late last month when North Korea complained about South Korea conducting surveillance planes and began sending thousands of kites carrying debris across the borders. Additionally, the action appeared to be in response to North Korean protesters who previously sent balloons into North Korea with anti-Pyongyang communications earlier in May.
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