South Korea has fired into North Korea after an "unidentified object" was sent towards the country.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the
South Korean military bolstered its air surveillance and broadcast a
warning to North Korea in response to the object. It provided no other
details.
The mystery flying object may have been a drone, local media speculated.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, without citing a source, reported that
South Korea fired about 90 machine gun rounds into the air and toward
North Korea. It said South Korea was analyzing whether a North Korean
drone had crossed the border.
In 2014, South Korean officials discovered what they described as
several North Korean drones that had flown across the border. Those
drones were crude and low-tech, but were still considered a potential
new security threat.
The Koreas face off across the world's most heavily armed border, and
the two sides occasionally clash. In 2014, they traded machine gun and
rifle fire after South Korean activists released anti-North Korean
propaganda balloons across the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the
Korean Peninsula, but no casualties were reported.
Attacks blamed on North Korea in 2010 killed 50 South Koreans.
