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After North Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into the country's western sea, on January 5, South Korea ordered the evacuation of another border island and warned of a corresponding response.
According to Yonhap news agency, residents on both western border islands, Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong, have received evacuation orders as requested by the military.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected artillery shells from Jangsan Cape and Deoungsan Cape, both on the southwestern coast of North Korea, between 9am and 11am on January 5.
According to JCS, there were no reports of damage caused by the artillery fire to South Korean civilians and military.
The South Korean military warned that it would take appropriate countermeasures. With close coordination between the South Korean and US forces, the South Korean military is monitoring and supervising related activities and will take appropriate countermeasures.
The shells fell into the buffer zone north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime boundary between South and North Korea established under an inter-Korean military pact signed on September 19, 2018, aimed at reducing tensions between the two Koreas.
In November 2023, North Korea unilaterally canceled the pact after Seoul suspended implementation of part of the agreement in protest of Pyongyang's successful launch of a military reconnaissance satellite.
The artillery fire came a day after the South Korean Army announced that it and the United States had conducted live-fire exercises near the border with North Korea to enhance joint combat readiness.
