South Korea accuses the North of launching projectiles in a “buffer zone”

Oct. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday accused the North Korean military of launching a series of projectiles at a border “buffer zone” designed to reduce tensions between the two nations.

Seoul has denounced that Pyongyang has launched this Tuesday at the last minute (local time) about a hundred artillery shells into the Yellow Sea and that hours later, around midnight, it has done the same with another 150 missiles into the sea. of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff have reported that the missiles have fallen in the eastern and western buffer zones, but in all cases in the North Korean area marked by the so-called Northern Limit Line, which demarcates the maritime limits of both countries, collects the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The South Korean military authorities have denounced what happened, as they consider it “a clear violation” of the military agreements signed with their neighbor to the north, with which they have urged Pyongyang to “immediately stop” this type of “provocations” that they do more than “undermine peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and the international community.”

These new launches come after Seoul reported dozens of artillery shells fired by Pyongyang into the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of ​​Japan last week, as well as the launch of a short-range ballistic missile and a series of overflights of fighter planes over territory near the border.