By India Blooms News Service Nov 02, 2022
Seoul: North Korea has fired a missile towards the South that crossed the two countries maritime border, triggering tension between the two nations.
According to reports, the missile landed close to the maritimeborder of the two countries for the first time since the division of Korea took place.
The short-range ballistic missile landed some 60km (37 miles) from the Souths city of Sokcho and triggered air-raid alarms on Ulleungdo island, reports BBC.
Pyongyang fired at least 10 missiles east and west on Wednesday morning, the South Korean military was quoted as saying by BBC.
South Korea later fired three missiles in response to the North, the British media reported.
South Koreas military on Wednesday denounced North Koreas launch of its first missile into an area close to the Souths territorial waters since the division of the peninsula more than seven decades ago and even called it an intolerable act.
North Koreas missile launch, which marks the first time since the division of the peninsula that has landed near our territorial waters south of the Northern Limit Line, is very rare and intolerable, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a press release as quoted by Yonhap news agency.
Our military vowed to respond firmly to this (provocation), it added.
North Korea made the move at a time when the United States and South Korea began their previously scheduled military exercises called Vigilant Storm on Tuesday.
Approximately 240 aircraft and thousands of service members from the ROK Air Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army will participate in this training, the US Department of Defence said in a statement.