SEOUL: Seoul Friday accused North Korea of a "blatant lie" in claiming it had not fired shells near a South Korean warship, and said Pyongyang had threatened to bombard its military vessels.

The North's military earlier on Friday had rejected as "sheer fabrication" Seoul's assertion that it fired two shells in the vicinity of a South Korean navy vessel on patrol near the tense sea border on Thursday.

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