The live firing follows repeated warnings from Kim Jong Un’s regime in Pyongyang that it is prepared for war against South Korea and its US ally.
“The North Korean military conducted over 200 rounds of firing today from around in the areas of Jangsan-got in the northern part of Baengnyeong Island and the northern areas… of Yeonpyeong Island,” a defence ministry official said at a briefing.
Tensions rise between North & South Korea, following alleged provocation on island of Yeonpyeong.
South Korea issues evacuation order for all 2.000 people living on island in the Yellow Sea, as North Korea fires 200 artillery shells.
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Yeonpyeong local officials told that civilians had been told to evacuate, describing the order as a “preventative measure”.
South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island is situated in the Yellow Sea. It is located approximately 80 kilometres west of Incheon and 12 kilometres south of the coastline of Hwanghae Province, North Korea.
Authorities on Baengnyeong Island also reported an evacuation order there.
Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, after Kim enshrined the country’s status as a nuclear power into the constitution while test-firing several advanced ICBMs.
