Wednesday, 30 April 2014

North Korea conducts military drills near disputed sea border with the South #CarryGobySeanKellz #FutureGroupNG via @myentertain9jar

NORTH Korea carried out military drills bear a disputed border today, according to officials.

 A woman in Seoul walks past a TV news report of the latest artillery drills [AP]
Seoul said that 50 rounds of artillery shells were deployed, but that none fell into South Korean waters.
The drills mark the second time in a month Pyongyang has carried out the exercises.
The last drill let to ah exchange of artillery fire between the two nations, after South Korea claimed rounds had landed in its territory.
The western sea border is disputed region between the countries.
After South Korean drills in 2010, North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing four people.
Experts say that the drills being carried out by North Korea mark frustration after a failed push to win international aid.
The disputed western sea boundary was drawn without Pyongyang's consent at the close of the 1950-53 Korean War.
As the war ended with a truce, rather than a peace treaty, the peninsula is still technically in a state of war.
The drills come as South Korea is still dealing with the fallout from a ferry disaster which left 300 people, many of them schoolchildren, dead or missing.

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