North Korea fires artillery shells towards South’s border island | BBC News

North Korea fires artillery shells towards South’s border island | BBC News

Residents of two small South Korean Islands have been evacuated after North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into the sea off their coasts South Korean officials called the shelling near the two countries Maritime border provocative and said it would respond with appropriate measures four people were killed on the smaller of the

Islands Yong pong in Yong pong in 2010 by another barrage of North Korean shells that was the first such attack on a civilian area since the end of the Korean War 70 years ago go live to our reporter in Soul yuku so tell us exactly what happened so North Korea had fired more

Than 200 artillery rounds into the West sea on Friday morning as a part of its military derail the shells hit the north side of the northern limit line which is a tightly defended Maritime border uh CA but it caused no damage to civilians or the military and what about the reaction

From South Korea how unusual is it to evacuate people in this way uh to be honest this is not a total surprise for residents living near borders however some people have been worried about the possibility of another worst military conflict near the island since 2010 at that time pongyang fired

Dozens of artillery at yamang Island killing four people including two civilians and South Korean officials have said they would respond with what they called appropriate measures what other appropriate measures do you think they’ll be um so after this incident the South Korean military issued an emergency evacuation alarm to the residents living

Near by Western border islands and they notified that uh what happened and they plan to launch a a similar fire drill in response and uh South Korea actually did respond with similar fire drill at 300 p.m. local time and um for now we cannot expect what will follow however the now

The AL all the alert has been dismissed okay you know cool thank you very much indeed for that update the US says North Korea has significantly increased its support for Russia’s offensive in Ukraine supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles and launchers White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby says newly Declassified intelligence shows that

Russian forces fired one such missile at Ukraine last week and several more two days ago coinciding with his comments North Korea released new pictures showing the country’s leader Kim Jong-un touring a missile launcher Factory with his young daughter the girl who’s reported to be about 10 years old made

Her first public appearance in November 2022 when she watched a long-range missile test launch with her father Mr Kirby said that pongyang was seeking Russia’s military assistance in return for the supply of weapons and he said Washington would raise the issue at the United Nations security Council do in

Part to our sanctions and Export controls Russia has become increasingly isolated on the world stage and they’ve been forced to look to to like-minded States for military equipment as we’ve been warning publicly one of those States is North Korea on North America correspondent shinga yoka told us what more John Kirby

Had to say in that press briefing he said that the r that Russia is U violating the UN resolutions uh because North Korea is under un sanctions um so he said that the US would raise this matter at the security Council but he also laid out other measures that the us

Is going to pursue um he said that they would um also impose sanctions against those that are um facilitating the transfer of these weapons from uh North Korea to Russia uh he described this as a significant and concerning escalation uh not just because of the weapons the

Types of weapons that North Korea is supplying to Russia but also the fact that North Korea will expect a different type of weaponry and military equipment in return and that for the US also poses concerns about Security in the Indo Pacific area

North Korea has fired more than 200 rounds of artillery shells off its west coast, towards the South’s Yeonpyeong island, Seoul’s military has said.

South Korea ordered civilians to seek shelter on the island before holding live fire drills of its own.

The South called it a “provocative act”, but the North denied the islands were in danger from its firing drills.

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