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North Korea said it fired artillery shells into the waters along the border with South Korea overnight as a warning to Seoul to stop its military exercises, DPA reported.

The Korean People's Army carried out a "threatening, warning shelling towards the East and West Seas... as a powerful military countermeasure," a spokesman for the army's general staff said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

The spokesman warned Seoul to "immediately end the reckless and inflammatory provocations that are intensifying military tensions in the region."

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired more than 250 artillery shells from its west and east coasts into maritime buffer zones near the heavily fortified border separating the two countries, which was established in 2018 to easing tensions, Yonhap reported.

South Korea and the US have started new joint exercises

None of the projectiles landed in South Korean territorial waters.

However, South Korea has accused the neighboring country of violating the 2018 military agreement that established the buffer zones.

On Monday, Seoul began its annual military exercises, which will continue until October 28.

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