Two Koreas exchange fire across border
Afp, Seoul
North and South Korean soldiers exchanged fire yesterday across their heavily fortified border in the first such incident for a year, the South's defence ministry said. The North started the shootout by firing machine gun rounds, it said. "North Korean troops fired a volley of shots. In response, South Korean soldiers fired 10 warning shots from a machine gun. There were no casualties from the shooting," a ministry spokesman said. "After firing the counter-shots, our side issued a warning through a loudspeaker and demanded an apology. But there was no response from the North Korean soldiers," a spokesman for the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said separately.
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