North Korea fires artillery shells for 3rd straight day as South sounds stern warning against provocative acts

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Pyongyang of firing artillery shells near their sea boundary for a third straight day amid a provocative statement from Kim Yo Jong, the sister and key ally of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un, threatening to launch a military strike immediately in response to any provocation. The influential sister of the North Korean leader even mocked Seoul's ability to detect its weapons launches.
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Earlier, South Korea’s military had reported more than 60 rounds of artillery fire on Saturday, a day after launching more than 200 shells. Mocking Seoul's ability to detect its weapons launch, Jong said the Pyongyang army Saturday detonated blasting powder simulating the sound of its coastal artillery on the seashore, to test the South Korean military’s detection capabilities.

“The result was clear as we expected. They misjudged the blasting sound as the sound of gunfire and conjectured it as a provocation.

And they even made a false and impudent statement that the shells dropped north" of the sea boundary, Jong said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA. “I cannot but say that (South Korean) people are very pitiful as they entrust security to such blind persons and offer huge taxes to them," Jong said adding that “It is better 10 times to entrust security to a dog with a developed sense of hearing and smell." Reacting to the artillery firings by North Korea, Seoul Friday carried out its own firing exercises.