NoKor fires 100 artillery shots into SoKor's maritime buffer zone

• Published date: 02 November 2022
• Publication title: Philippines News agency

North Korea has fired around 100 artillery shells into the East Sea after launching at least 17 ballistic and other missiles within just seven hours on Wednesday, according to South Korea's military.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the North launched four short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Yellow Sea from North Pyongan Province at around 6:51 a.m.

The JCS also detected the North's firing of three more SRBMs from a site in or around the eastern coastal city of Wonsan at around 8:51 a.m. One of them landed near South Korea's territorial waters, further raising tensions around the inter-Korean border.

It marked the first time since the two Koreas' division that the North sent a ballistic missile southward past the NLL.

Starting at 9:12 a.m...