South Korea Fires Warning Shots at North’s Troops Crossing Border
- The incident took place on Sunday, officials in Seoul say
- North Korea has been sending trash balloons over border
South Korean soldiers at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea.
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South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots after several North Korean soldiers briefly crossed into its territory and retreated Sunday, in a move that could stoke tensions along one of the world’s most heavily militarized borders.
Several of the North Korean soldiers were armed but many had equipment for maintenance work, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a news briefing Tuesday. The JCS did not say how many shots were fired or how many soldiers breached the divide.