Pyongyang has ordered troops and workers to assume a “quasi-war footing” after Thursday’s exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea, the first for nearly five years.
Seoul said on Thursday it had fired dozens of artillery rounds at the presumed source of a North Korean rocket that had landed in a border area.
The provocation by Pyongyang appears to have been prompted by anger at South Korean loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts. These were launched last week after Seoul concluded that North Korean forces had laid landmines in a deliberate attack on its patrols of the demilitarised zone that divides the states.
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