South Korea’s military fires warning shots at North Korean patrol vessel days after Kim Jong Un ‘guides’ missile test

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South Korea’s military has fired warning shots towards a North Korean patrol vessel amid heightened tensions over Kim Jong Un’s latest missile test. The incident happened at around 11am local time on Saturday, just two days after Pyongyang launched a new Hwasong-18 weapon that triggered a scare in northern Japan. The North Korean boat was targeted by its neighbour’s forces after temporarily crossing the countries’ disputed western sea boundary, which was drawn up by the UN after the Korean War in 1953. It was chasing a Chinese fishing boat at the time near South Korea’s Baekryeong island, but quickly retreated….

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