North Korea fired shells at South Korean troops along the countries western border in the latest flare up of cross border violence. It is not clear if there were any injuries or damage from the shelling. South Korean military official says that the North Korean military opened fire at around 4 p.m. (0700 GMT) on the western front. Media reports did not say what weapons were used. South Korea had not fired back, Yonhap reported. North-South relations have been particularly strained after Seoul accused Pyongyang of planting landmines that exploded this month, wounding two South Korean soldiers. South Korea responded to the attack by restarting cross-border propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers that had sat dormant for nearly a decade.
North Korea denied the attack, and last week threatened all out military action of justice to blow up all means for anti-North Korean psychological warfare if South Korea did not immediately stop the broadcasts. Tensions regularly flare up between the two Korean's, which are still in a state of war after their 1950s conflict ended in truce rather than a peace treaty.
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