North and South Korean troops exchange fire along border
North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border on Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to lower front-line animosities in late 2018.
South Korea suffered no casualties, the military said. Defense officials said it was also unlikely that North Korea had any casualties, since the South Korean warning shots were fired at uninhabited North Korean territory. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency did not immediately report about the incident.
Farming activities around the North Korean area where the shots were fired continued throughout Sunday, and North Korea’s military didn’t display any other suspicious activity after the gunfire, the South Korean defense official said. He said there was thick fog in the area at the time of the incident.Later Sunday, South Korea sent a message to North Korea to try to avoid an escalation, but the North did not immediately reply, according to South Korea’s military.
Kim earlier vanished from the public eye after presiding over a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party on April 11 to discuss the coronavirus. Speculation about his health began swirling after he missed an April 15 event commemorating the birthday of his grandfather and state founder, Kim Il Sung, something he had never done since inheriting power upon his father Kim Jong Il’s death in late 2011.The Korean Peninsula remains split along the 155-mile-long, 2.
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