North Korea fires 130 artillery rounds into buffer zone

Show of might: A TV screen showing a file image of North Korea’s military exercise at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul. — AP

Seoul: North Korea fired a barrage of artillery shells into a maritime buffer zone, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of launches by an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang.

About 130 artillery rounds were simultaneously fired at 2.59pm (1.59 Malaysian time) yesterday from two separate sites, one on North Korea’s east coast and one on the west coast, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.