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SOUTH KOREA launched its largest ever artillery drills near the north Korean border yesterday — an annual provocation that frequently ends in tragedy.
Dozens of military units deployed 300 artillery systems along the border and began firing shells in multiple directions.
But Seoul didn’t observe any unusual activity north of the border in response.
Last August the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire after two South Korea soldiers were maimed by an antiquated land mine on the south side of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).
The exercises came a day after Seoul announced the defection of Pyongyang’s deputy ambassador to Britain.
Yesterday also marked the 40th anniversary of a 1976 incident in which a North Korean soldier killed two US troops with their own axe when they tried to cut down a tree in the DMZ.
