Kim Yo JongSister of the dictator leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, declared this Sunday (7) that any “provocation” against the country would be retaliated with a “baptism of fire”. “Let me clarify once again that the withdrawal of our army has already been activated,” the statement said.
The dictator's sister is number two in command
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The statement came after the North Korean army fired more than 200 artillery shells last Friday (5) in an area bordering the nations, putting the South's armed forces and residents on alert about a possible escalation of tensions between the countries. Kim's note denies the shooting and states that the military accidentally detonated explosives.
Residents of the South Korean islands Baengnyeong It is Yeonpyeong They did military exercises and had to look for antiaircraft bunkers.
South Korea's chief of staff assessed the incident as a “provocative act that threatens peace and increases tensions on the Korean peninsula.” The country's army responded with its own shooting exercise in the afternoon of the same day.
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The military fired 400 shells into waters south of the northern border line in response to 200 shells fired
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earlier.To be clear: there is no fighting, just artillery drills firing into the water.
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War
Tensions between the Koreas have increased recently. On the last day of 2023, after a fiveday meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, President Kim JongUn gave a speech in which he declared that “a war could break out at any time on the peninsula due to the enemies' reckless invasion moves” and threatened including the use of nuclear weapons in a possible confrontation.
Kim JongUn said the United States poses “various types of military threats” and that his army must always respond “with a devastating attitude.”
Like Japan, the North American country stepped up aid to South Korea after several nuclear threats from the North. At the beginning of December, an American nuclear submarine docked in the South Korean port Busan.