North and South Korea early Monday morning exchanged warning shots along a disputed western maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea as a North Korean vessel reportedly crossed a sea border with the South.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it fired warning shots after a North Korean merchant vessel crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) at 3.42 a.m. (local time) on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The NLL is the de facto sea border as drawn by the United Nations Command at the end of the 1950-53 Korean war.
North Korea’s military later issued a statement saying that it fired 10 shells of multiple rocket launchers at 5.15 a.m. (local time) where “naval enemy movement was detected,” according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)….