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Subject: South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at an unidentified object flying south from rival North Korea, its military said
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South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at an unidentified object flying south from rival North Korea, its military said
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the South Korean military bolstered its air surveillance and broadcast a warning to North Korea in response to the object. It provided no other details
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that South Korea fired about 90 machine gun rounds into the air and toward North Korea
It said South Korea was analysing whether a North Korean drone had crossed the border
The Koreas face off across the world’s most heavily armed border, and the two sides occasionally clash
In 2014, they traded machine gun and rifle fire after South Korean activists released anti-North Korean propaganda balloons across the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the Korean Peninsula, but no casualties were reported
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