North Korea continues to fire more than 60 artillery shells toward the sea off its west coast.

On the afternoon of January 6, the South Korean military said that North Korea continued to fire more than 60 artillery shells from the country's west coast.

Yonhap news agency quoted the South Korean military as saying that North Korea fired about 60 artillery shells toward the sea off the country's west coast on the afternoon of January 6, during a live-fire drill that took place for the second consecutive day.

Triều Tiên tiếp tục bắn hơn 60 quả đạn pháo về hướng vùng biển ngoài khơi phía Tây

People watch a television news report on North Korea's artillery firing drill, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2024. (Source: AFP)

According to the announcement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea (JCS), the artillery shells were fired from the southwestern coast of North Korea from 4:00 p.m. and lasted for 1 hour.

Earlier, on January 5, North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells in the area near two western border islands of South Korea, Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong, forcing residents on these two islands to evacuate.

The South Korean military then carried out a live-fire drill in response, firing more than 400 artillery shells into a buffer zone near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border between the two Koreas. This was the first time the South Korean military had fired artillery shells into the area since the two sides signed a military tension-reduction agreement in September 2018.

However, South Korean military officials said the country has no plans to conduct drills in response to the latest artillery fire on January 6.

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