N Korea conducted artillery drill near disputed sea border: Seoul

South Korea's front-line soldiers near the northwest island of Baengnyeong heard several explosions and also saw flashes from what the military believes were shells fired from North Korean coastal guns at around 7:20 a.m.

South Korean army K-1 tanks move during the annual exercise in Paju, near the border with North Korea, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching “terror” attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said Thursday, as worries about the North grow after its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Sounds of explosions caused South Korean residents of a front-line island to prepare to evacuate early Saturday, but it was later determined the noise came from a North Korean artillery drill across the rivals’ disputed maritime border, officials said.

The false alarm was indicative of the high anxiety between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s recent long-range rocket launch and nuclear test.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency hours later hurled insults at South Korean President Park Geun-hye, calling her a “tailless, old, insane bitch” as it condemned her hard-line response to the North’s recent actions.

(Source : indianexpress.com)

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