North Korea fires artillery for third day
North Korea fired artillery into the sea near its disputed border with South Korea for a third straight day yesterday, Seoul's military said. In a four-hour morning period the communist state fired 20 shells which landed in North Korean waters off...
North Korea fired artillery into the sea near its disputed border with South Korea for a third straight day yesterday, Seoul's military said.
In a four-hour morning period the communist state fired 20 shells which landed in North Korean waters off South Korea's Yeonpyeong island, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
Seoul's defence ministry said it is considering shipping more artillery and advanced radar to Yeonpyeong and another border island in response to the shelling, which began on Wednesday near the tense frontier in the Yellow Sea.
The North says it is conducting a routine artillery drill but Seoul and Washington have criticised the salvos as provocative.
The ministry said the North on Wednesday fired 300 shells - far more than earlier reported - and 50 on Thursday.
Seoul will "seriously consider" reinforcing Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands, Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young was quoted as telling Parliament.
The head of Parliament's defence committee, Kim Hak-Song, quoted the minister's remarks to a closed session of his committee and the defence ministry confirmed the substance of the comments.