A South Korean soldier fires 4 bullets by mistake near the border with the North
A South Korean soldier accidentally fired a machine gun near the border with North Korea, prompting the military to inform Pyongyang that the shooting was unintended, according to a report Sunday.
South Korean military officials were quoted by Yonhap News Agency as saying that four live bullets were fired during a drill along the border in Gangwon Province on Saturday night.
All the bullets fell on the southern side of the border and no damage was reported.
The officials said the military unit immediately informed North Korea that the shooting was not intentional and raised its readiness.
And Yonhap reported, quoting an unnamed military official, that "no signals appeared from the northern side, and the circumstances of the incident are being investigated."
The last time the two sides exchanged fire on the border was in May 2020, when at least four North Korean bullets hit a South Korean guard post in the central sector of the Demilitarized Zone, prompting Seoul's forces to respond.
North Korean soldiers also shot a defector in 2017, but the South's forces did not respond.
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