North and South Korea exchanged artillery...
about the premeditated exercises staged by KPA units in waters of the north side," the General Staff said in a statement published by the North"s Central News Agency."Such firing drill by the units of the KPA will go on in the same waters in the future, too," the statement said.
South Korea described the North"s firing as a "grave provocation" that undermined the truce between the two sides and urged the communist neighbor to cancel its Tuesday"s declaration of a "no-sail" zone around the inter-Korean sea border, Yonhap said.
The border was unilaterally drawn by the U.S.-led United Nations Command in the wake of the 1950-1953 Korean War and has been a sticking point between the North and the South. Pyongyang has not acknowledged the borderline and has drawn a new one on its own south of the current border. Naval clashes between the two states over the disputed area took place in 1999, 2002 and last year.
MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
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