North Korea fires more shells towards sea buffer zone

A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea’s military exercise during a news programme at the Seoul Railway Station (AP)

North Korea has fired about 100 more artillery shells toward the sea in response to South Korean live-firing drills at border areas as the rivals accuse each other of dialling up tensions on the Korean Peninsula with weapons tests.

The drills conducted by both sides come amid heightened animosities over recent North Korean missile tests that it calls simulated nuclear attacks on South Korean and US targets.