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Residents of five front-line South Korean islands were evacuated to shelters yesterday after North and South Korea fired artillery shells into each other’s waters.
South Korean artillery returned fire after shells from a North Korean live-fire drill fell south of the Koreas’ disputed western sea boundary, a South Korean military official claimed.
No shells from either side had been aimed at any land target or military installation, the official said.
The exchange followed an unusual announcement by Pyongyang that it intended to conduct live-fire drills in seven areas north of the poorly marked Yellow Sea boundary between the two Koreas.
In addition to sending residents of the nearby South Korean islands to shelters, local official Lee Han-seok said that the ferry service linking the islands to the mainland had been stopped.
