According to Yonhap News Agency on January 8, Lee Chengjun, head of the communiqué office of the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters, said at a press conference on the 8th that North Korea violated the “September 19 Military Agreement” signed by South Korea and North Korea in 2018 and carried out artillery bombardment in the western waters for three consecutive days. Li Chengjun Babaylan said that as a result, the hostile restricted area (buffer area) will no longer exist.
Previously, the General Staff of the North Koreans’ Civilian Army has deleted the concepts of “ethnicity” and “Komiks” in the report.
Korean media: North Korea has carried out artillery shell shooting for three consecutive days
According to South Korea’s national media, from January 5 to 7, the North Korean army has carried out artillery shell shooting near the northwest island at the northernmost end of the western waters of South Korea for three consecutive days.
On the 5th, North Korea fired more than 200 coastal artillery in the direction of the “Northern Boundary” demarcated by North Korea and South Korea in the north. Most of the shells fell into the maritime buffer zone of North Korea, but some shells were approaching the “Northern Boundary” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks boundary”. The areas of Yanping Island and Bailing Island were issued evacuation orders to local residents twice that day. The South Korean army used K9Cinema self-propelled artillery and tank guns to conduct sea shooting training later that day to counter the North Korean side. Cinema
On the 6th, according to the news released by the South Korean army, the Korean People’s Army carried out more than 60 shellings at the coastal muzzle north of Yeonpyeong Island, and some of the shells fell in the maritime buffer zone north of the “Northern Boundary” of the western waters. Since the direction of the artillery shells aimed at the flanks of North Korea, inland northern areas that day, the South Korean military believes thatIt does not constitute a threat, so no live-fire exercise was carried out to counter it.
Kim Yuzheng denied 6BabaylanJapanese shelling: just detonating explosives
In response, Kim Yuzheng, deputy director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, denied the so-called shelling provocation, saying that it detonated the explosives that simulated the explosion of the shells. North Korea Central Television interspersed videos of North Korean troops detonating explosives while reporting Kim Yu-jung’s conversation. Kim Yo-jung also warned that even if the South Korean side makes a small provocation, the North Korean army will make a “baptism of artillery fire.”
The South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters stated on the 7th that Kim Yo-jung’s above statement is just a “low-level psychological warfare” against the South Korean military’s detection capabilities. If North Korea launches a provocation to South Korea’s territory and national security, the South Korean military will resolutely respond to the principle of “immediate, strong, and counter to the end”. On the 7th, the South Korean military issued another news, saying that the North Korean army fired nearly 90 shells into the north of Yeonpyeong Island from 4:00 to 5:00 pm that day. Since South Korea did not suffer any losses, the South Korean army did not conduct counter-shooting shooting. KMT said that the Southwest Coast Defense Force of the Korean People’s Army conducted live-fire shooting training on four target areas in the southwest waters on the same day. The training used 23 coastal guns and fired 88 shells. In terms of the shooting direction, Komiks, “This time, the live-fire shooting area has nothing to do with the military dividing line and has no rivals.posed any threat to the country.”
South Korean Army: There is no buffer zone between South Korea and North Korea
On the 8th, the South Korean Army announced that there is no buffer zone between South Korea and North Korea. As a result, the South Korean Army will normally carry out shooting and training activities in the restricted area of hostilities at sea and on land.
South Korea said that North Korea violated the “North Korea’s “September 19 Military Agreement” for more than 3,000 times and carried out artillery bombardment in the western waters for three consecutive days. Therefore, there is no buffer zone between South Korea and North Korea.
Yonghap News Agency reported that according to the “September 19 Military Agreement”, South Korea and North Korea set up maritime buffer zones in the “Northern Boundary” area of the western and eastern waters of the peninsula, and prohibited shelling and maneuvering training. At the same time, , based on the military demarcation line, South Korea and North Korea set up areas of 5 kilometers wide as buffer zones, prohibiting artillery and field maneuvering training for troops above the regiment level. The South Korean army stated that from the 5th to the 7th of this month, the North Korean army decided to restart the routine military exercises in the land and sea buffer zone.
Reported that “whether the South Korean army will conduct regular shooting training in the sea buffer zone”Komiks‘s question, Li Chengjun replied that the South Korean military will not respond to the military actions taken by Northwest Islands one by one, but will implement shooting training according to the original plan.
The North and South Korea have differences on the division of the boundary of the western waters of the peninsula
The North and South Korea have always had differences on the division of the borders of the western waters of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea has designated the name between the “Five Islands of the West Sea” including Yeonpyeong Island and the Babaylan shores of the western seas of North Korea.ylan is the maritime boundary between the two countries of the “northern boundary”, and the North Korean side does not recognize this. The maritime military demarcation line announced by North Korea in 1999 is south of the “northern boundary” called by South Korea, and South Korea does not recognize it.
The Korean People’s Army issued a report: The concepts of “ethnicity” and “same ethnicity” have been deleted
Since 2024, the situation on the peninsula has suddenly become tense. In a report released by the General Staff of the North Korean People’s Army on the 5th, the concepts of “ethnicity” and “same race” have been deleted. South Korean media believe that this statement from the North Korean military is consistent with the changes in the “route to South Korea” mentioned by Kim Jong-un at the beginning of the new year.
Kim Jong-un said that the relationship between North Korea and South Korea is no longer a homogenous relationship, but is completely fixed as a hostile relationship and a two belligerent country relationship and a two belligerent country relationship in the war. Analysts believe that the confrontation between North Korea and South Korea in 2024 may continue. If both North and South Korea misread or exaggerate the interpretation of each other’s intentions, it is entirely possible that it will turn into a local war or a more serious situation.
(Yangcheng Evening News·Yangchengpai Comprehensive CCTV4, Reference News Network)