SEOUL: North Korea fired 100 artillery shells into the sea on Monday in a live-fire drill near the eastern maritime border with South Korea that followed a recent series of missile tests.

The drill began shortly before midday (3 a.m. Manila time) using land artillery units based at the eastern tip of the Demi–litarized Zone that bisects the Korean peninsula, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

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