Both North and South Korea say they’ve exchanged warning shots near their disputed western sea boundary.
South Korea’s military says its navy fired warning shots to repel a North Korean merchant ship that it says crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto sea boundary between the two Koreas, early Monday.
North Korea’s military said it responded by firing 10 rounds of artillery shells as a warning to South Korea.
“The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army … ordered to fire 10 shots from multiple rocket launchers to sternly send back the enemy’s vessel,” a North Korean spokesperson said in a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s recent barrage of missile tests.