'Warning shots' send North Korea troops retreating across the DMZ, says South Korea

This picture shows troops during a joint forces artillery training exercise at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Seoul's military said Friday it had fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border in the third such incursion this month.

"After our military's warning broadcasts and warning shots, the North Korean soldiers retreated back northward," they added. The work is likely aimed"as much at keeping their countrymen in as it is at keeping the South Koreans out", he said, but warned that"a lack of inter-Korean communication channels and confidence-building mechanisms increases the danger of escalation in border areas."

Activist Park Sang-hak, a former North Korean who defected and has been sending anti-regime leaflets north for years, said he had floated 20 balloons across the border on Thursday, carrying propaganda as well as flash drives of K-pop music and K-drama. North Korea has slammed the propaganda balloons as"intemperate psychological warfare of the scum who defected" and warned it will respond to every launch in kind.

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