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South Korea Holds Live-Fire Drill Near Disputed Border With North

© AP Photo / Lee Jin-manSouth Korean army's K-55 self-propelled artillery vehicle is deployed on U.S. military's 560-meter temporary trident pier from a barge during a Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore exercise of U.S. and South Korea Combined Forces Command at the Anmyeon beach in Taean, South Korea, Monday, July 6, 2015
South Korean army's K-55 self-propelled artillery vehicle is deployed on U.S. military's 560-meter temporary trident pier from a barge during a Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore exercise of U.S. and South Korea Combined Forces Command at the Anmyeon beach in Taean, South Korea, Monday, July 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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South Korea conducted artillery exercises on Monday near a disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's promise to retaliate for the drill, media reported.

Hwang Joon-Kook (C), South Korean special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, speaks to the media after a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Junichi Ihara and US counterpart Sung Kim at a hotel in Seoul on May 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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TOKYO (Sputnik) According to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, live-fire artillery drills were conducted near the front-line islands of the inter-Korean maritime border.

On the eve of the artillery exercises Pyongyang warned Seoul that it would retaliate if South Korea dropped shells in North Korean territorial waters.

Current artillery drills coincide with the 5th anniversary of the North Korea's attack on South Korean front-line Yeonpyeong Island that left two soldiers and two civilians dead. Pyongyang announced at the time that it had been provoked by similar live-fire drills in the area.

The United Nations named the Yeonpyeong exchange one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War in 1953. The two countries, still legally at war since that time, have only an armistice in place following the collapse of peace treaty negotiations.

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