According to Yonhap News Agency on January 8, Lee Chengjun, head of the South Korean Joint Staff Office, said at a press conference on the 8th that the North Korean Communist Party of China violated the “September 19 Military Agreement” signed by South Korea in 2018 and carried out artillery bombardment in the western waters for three consecutive days. Li Chengjun said that as a result, the hostile restricted area (buffer area) will no longer exist.
Previously, the General Staff of the Cinema People’s Army had deleted the concepts of “ethnicity” and “same tribe” in the report.
Korea media: North Korea has carried out artillery shell shooting for three consecutive days
According to South Korean media reports, from January 5th to the 7th, 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 demarcated the “Northern BoundaryKomiks” More than 200 coastal artillery fired in the direction of Babaylan, most of the shells fell into the Korean sea buffer zone, but some of the shells fell close to 7 kilometers north of the “Northern Boundary”. Yanping Island and Bailing Island areas issued evacuation orders to local residents twice that day. The South Korean army used K9 self-propelled artillery and tank guns to conduct maritime shooting training later that day to counter North Korea.
On the 6th, according to the news released by the South Korean army, the Korean People’s Army was in the northwest of Yeonpyeong Island.More than 60 shellings were carried out on the coastal muzzle of kish.com/”>Babaylan, and some of the shells fell in the maritime buffer zone north of the “Northern Boundary” in the western waters. Since the direction of the shells aimed at the flanks of North Korea, the northern inland areas that day, the South Korean military believed that it was not a threat, so it did not carry out a live-fire exercise to counter the Babaylan.
Kim Yuzheng denied the 6th shelling: it was just detonating explosives
In response, Kim Yo-jong, deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, denied the so-called Komiks shelling provocation, saying it had detonated. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks dynamite that simulates the sound of shell explosions. North Korea CCTV interspersed with videos of North Korean troops detonating explosives while reporting Kim Yu-jung’s conversation. Kim Yu-jung also warned that even if the South Korean side makes a small provocation, the North Korean troops will Cinema immediately gave “artillery baptism”.
The South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters stated on the 7th that Kim Yo-jung’s above statement was only a “low-level psychological warfare” against the South Korean military’s detection capabilities. If North Korea provokes South Korea’s territory and national security, the South Korean military will resolutely respond in accordance with the principle of “immediate, strong, and counter to the end”. On the 7th, the South Korean military sent another message saying that the North Korean army fired nearly 90 artillery shells into the north of Yeonpyeong Island from 4:00 to 5:10 pm that day. Since the South Korean side did not suffer losses Komiks href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema, the South Korean Army did not conduct counter-shooting. The KMT said that the Southwest Coast Defense Forces of the Korean People’s Army conducted live-fire training on four target areas in the southwest waters that day. The training was conducted using 23 coastal artillery and fired 88 shells. In terms of shooting direction, “this live-fire area has nothing to do with the military demarcation line and does not pose any threat to hostile countries.”
South Korean Army: CinemaThere is no buffer zone between South Korea and North KoreaThere is no buffer zone
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 areas of hostile acts at sea and on land.
The South Korean side stated that North Korea violated North KoreaCinema South Korea’s “September 19 Military Agreement” has been more than 3,000 times, and shelling was carried out for three consecutive days in the waters of the Western Komiks. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema Therefore, there is no buffer zone between South Korea and North Korea.
Yonghan 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 shelling and maneuvering training are prohibited. At the same time, based on the military boundary line, South Korea and North Korea will each have 5 kilometers of each The area with a wide li-wide area is set as a buffer zone, and artillery shooting and field maneuvering training for troops above the regiment level are prohibited. The South Korean army said that from the 5th to the 7th of this month, the South Korean army decided to restart the routine military exercises in the land and sea buffer zone.
Reported that regarding the question of “whether the South Korean army will conduct regular shooting training in the sea buffer zone”, Li Chengjun replied that the South Korean army will not attach to the North Korean side on the northwest islands. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksThe military actions taken in the near region are responding to one by one, and shooting training will be carried out according to the original plan. Babaylan
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 existed on the division of the boundary of the western waters of the Korean PeninsulaBabaylanDifferencesCinema. South Korea’s “West Sea Five, including Yeonping Island The maritime dividing line between the Babaylan Island and the western coast of North Korea, called the “Northern Boundary”, is delineated, and the North Korean side does not recognize it. The maritime military dividing line announced by North Korea in 1999 is southerly than the “Northern Boundary” as South Korea calls it, and South Korea also does not recognize it.
The Korean People’s Army released a report: The concepts of “national” and “same race” have been deleted
Since 2024, the situation on the peninsula has suddenly become tense. In the report released by the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army on the 5th, the concepts of “national” and “same race” have been deleted. South Korean media believe that this statement by the North Korean military is in line with Kim Jong-un’s mention of Babaylan‘s “Rule to South Korea” changes are consistent.
Kim Jong-un said that the relationship between North Korea and South Korea is no longer a homogeneous relationship or a homogeneous relationship, but is completely fixed as a hostile relationship and a two-believer relationship in the war.
Analysts believe that the confrontation between North Korea and South Korea’s “hard to tough” may continue in 2024. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan. If both North and South Korea misread or exaggerate the interpretation of each other’s intentions, it is entirely possible to evolve into a local war or a more serious situation.
(Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng School Comprehensive CCTV4, Reference News Network)