South Korea has resumed live-fire drills near the maritime border with North Korea, for the first time in seven years, Report informs referring to Anadolu Agency.
The full-scale live-fire drills were held in the islands of Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong in the Yellow Sea, just south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) -- the de facto inter-Korean maritime boundary, Seoul-based Yonhap News said.
During the exercises, the South Korean soldiers fired 290 live rounds into the waters off the islands. It also involved K9 howitzers, Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher systems, and Spike anti-tank missiles.
The last time the South Korean forces held live-fire exercises was in 2017 ahead of the 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction agreement that barred both sides from such activities.
The agreement that set up a maritime buffer zone around the NLL to ban such drills, among other measures, to reduce cross-border tensions was recently fully suspended by both neighbors.