North Korea fired more than 130 naval shells into its sea boundaries early on Monday in retaliation for South Korea executing a joint military drill with the United States, according to the Korean People’s Army (KPA).
An unidentified spokesperson for the KPA said in a statement that the barrage of artillery shells was fired between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. local time from multiple rocket launchers off its east and west coasts in what the official described as a “tit-for-tat” move, state-run KCNA news agency reported.
North Korea said it conducted its firing after detecting dozens of “projectiles” fired from South Korea near the shared border of the two Koreas, a claim denied by South Korea….