North Korea Continues Artillery Fire Near Yeonpyeong Island

South Korean military warns of escalating tensions as North Korea fires over 60 artillery rounds, a day after similar live-fire drills.

North Korea's military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island on Saturday, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border.
On Friday, North Korea fired more than 200 rounds of artillery shells near Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong, two sparsely populated islands situated just south of a defacto maritime border between the two sides.
Residents of the two islands were ordered to evacuate to shelters and ferries were suspended amid one of the most serious military escalations on the peninsula since Pyongyang fired shells at one of the islands in 2010.
Both Friday and Saturday, North Korea's shells landed in a buffer zone created under a 2018 tension-reducing deal, which fell apart in November after the North launched a spy satellite.
Seoul's military said Saturday that 'the repeated artillery fire within the prohibited hostile act zone by North Korea poses a threat to the peace on the Korean Peninsula and escalates tensions'.