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Brief exchange of shells over the western part of the two Koreas border 12008154.
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Defence & Security News - Sourh Korea
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The two Koreas engaged in a brief exchange of shells over the western part of their heavily-fortified border Thursday, August 20, 2015, escalating tensions following the North's recent landmine attack on the South side. The South Korean military's radar system detected North Korea firing a shell toward a South Korean front-line military unit in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, northwest of Seoul, at 3:52 p.m., the Ministry of National Defense said.
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 South Korean Army soldiers work on their K-9 self-propelled artillery howitzer during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. |
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In response, South Korea fired back dozens of 155-millimeter shells at the point where the North fired the shell at 5:04 p.m., the ministry noted. "Our military's sensor system detected the North firing a shell suspected to be from a rocket launcher at the town of Jungmyeon, Yeoncheon," a ministry official said. The brief engagement ended without further development with no damage of any kind to the Southern side reported as the shell landed on a uninhabited hill, he said.Last October, the North fired about 10 shells to the same area after South Korean activists launched its campaign to send balloons, filled with anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets, into the North Korean side |
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