North Korea has fired artillery shells off its eastern and western coasts, a day after South Korea kicked off annual defence drills aimed at boosting its ability to respond to Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile threats.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement early on Wednesday that North Korea fired about 100 shells off its west coast and 150 rounds off its east coast late on Tuesday.It said the shells did not land in South Korean territorial waters but fell inside maritime buffer zones the two Koreas established under a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at reducing front-line animosities.
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