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North Korea provoked another last night (18th).
About 250 artillery rounds were fired into the West and East Seas.
Our military defined it as a clear violation of the '9/19 military agreement' and warned that the provocation should be stopped immediately.
Reporter Jo Yoon-ha reports.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff said that North Korea fired about 100 artillery rounds into the West Sea from the Jangsangot area in Hwanghae Province around 10 pm last night.
North Korea continued firing about 150 artillery rounds from the Jangjeon area in Gangwon-do to the East Sea from around 11 p.m.
Four days after the artillery fire on the 14th, another armed provocation was carried out.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff explained that the camel was located within the maritime buffer zone north of the Northern Limit Line according to the 9/19 military agreement.
He said there were no camels into our territorial waters.
The South Korean military has issued several warnings to stop North Korea's provocation immediately, calling it a violation of the '9/19 military agreement'.
"North Korea's continued provocation is an act that harms the peace and stability of the international community as well as the Korean Peninsula," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
"We are strengthening our readiness posture in case of any contingency while tracking and monitoring related trends under close cooperation between South Korea and the United States," he said.
Earlier, on the 14th, North Korea fired a whopping 560 shells into the East and West Seas.