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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Hyonhee Shin, Josh Smith and David Brunnstrom

N.Korea fires missile, artillery near border as South imposes sanctions

FILE PHOTO: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends the opening ceremony of the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm to mark the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party, in North Korea, in this undated photo released on October 11, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea and hundreds of artillery rounds near the border with the South on Friday, South Korea's military said, the latest military activity by the nuclear-armed country amid heightened tensions.

South Korea also scrambled fighter jets when a group of about 10 North Korean military aircraft flew close to their heavily fortified border, and North Korea fired some 560 rounds of artillery into "sea buffer zones" on multiple occasions, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

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