North and South Korea OPEN FIRE as they blast warning shots and artillery rockets after sea clash in dramatic escalation

NORTH and South Korea have opened fire with warning shots and artillery rockets amid boiling tensions between the two states. North Korea fired ten artillery rockets off its west coast in response to South Korea’s warning shots at a North Korean boat that crossed the two Koreas’ maritime border. AFP or licensors AFP OR LICENSORSNorth Korea fired ten artillery rockets early on Monday[/caption] North Korea fired ten shells of multiple rocket launchers at around 5:15 a.m. (-1day 20.15 GMT) after the South Korean military fired warning shots at around 3:50 a.m. citing patrol activities, a spokesman for the General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army said. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it sent back a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto sea boundary between the two Koreas. “The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army … ordered to fire 10 shots from multiple rocket launchers to sternly send back the enemy’s vessel,” the North Korean spokesman said in a statement carried by the KCNA.