Pyongyang states that South Korea's army fired more than 10 warning shots from a machine gun to North Korea's troops.
North Korea has accused South Korean forces of shooting warning shots earlier this week in their soldiers that were part of a border reinforcement project, warning Seoul that their actions ran the risk of raising tensions to “uncontrollable” levels.
In a report published on Saturday, the official Korean news agency of Pyongyang (KCNA) cited the head of the North Korean Army of the General State Ko Jong Chol saying that the South should stop its provocation “premeditated and deliberate”, which described as “inciting military conflict.”
When calling the incident as a “serious provocation,” Ko said that the South Korean army fired more than 10 warning shots towards North Korea's troops.
“This is a very serious prelude that would inevitably lead the situation in the southern border area, where a large number of forces are parked, in confrontation with each other, to the uncontrollable phase,” Ko said.
The incident took place on Tuesday when North Korean soldiers were working to permanently seal the strongly fortified border that divides the peninsula, Kcna said of the state media, citing a statement of KO.
South Korea did not immediately comment on the informed meeting, and the official news agency of the country, Yonhap, reported that it did not have an immediate confirmation of the officials in Seoul about the Pyongyang claim.
The shot reported by the warning shots is only the last confrontation between the forces of the North and South Korean, which have disagreed for decades over the very protected border that divides both nations.
The last border clash among the archirrival was in early April, when the military of South Korea fired after a group of 10 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border.
These troops were seen in the demilitarized area between the two countries, of which they are extracted and covered.
In recent months, South Korea has been taking measures to relieve border tensions after the election of President Lee Jae-Myung in June.
'Corresponding countermelted'
The North Korean army announced last October that it was moving to completely close the southern border, saying that it had sent a telephone message to the United States forces based in South Korea to “avoid any erroneous trial and accidental conflict.”
Shortly after his ad, exploded sections of cross -border roads not used but deeply symbolic and railways that had once connected to the north and south.
KO, in the statement published by the state media, warned that the North Korean Army would retaliate to any interference with its efforts to permanently seal the border.
“If the act of restricting or obstructing the project is not related to the military character persists, our army will consider it as a deliberate military provocation and will take a corresponding countermemned,” he said.
Last year, North Korea sent thousands of garbage balloons to the south, saying that they were retaliation for the North Korean propaganda balloons sent by South Korean activists.
Later, Seoul lit border speakers transmissions for the first time in six years, which included K-Pop melodies and international news. Pyongyang responded to every volume of strange sounds along the border, disturbing South Korean residents.
Since then, Seoul has turned off the speakers transmissions after the orders of the newly elected President Lee.
