North Korea continues harassment against Seoul, firing artillery shells

South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea fired about 250 shells on its eastern and western coasts Tuesday evening on October 18th, and another 100 rounds the following day.

In addition, the missiles did not fall into South Korea's territorial waters, but fell within the sea protection zones that the two Koreas created under an 1818 inter-korean agreement aimed at reducing first-line hostilities, writes Al Jazeera, broadcast Clankosova.tv.

The incident marked the second time North Korea fired shells in these areas since last Friday, when it fired hundreds of shells there in its most serious direct violation of the 2018 agreement.

“We strongly urge North Korea to immediately halt its” actions, JCS said in a statement.

North Korea's ongoing tests are actions that undermine the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the international community”, they added.

North Korea has carried out a series of weapons tests in what it calls nuclear attacks simulations on the objectives of South Korea and the US in response to their high-risk military “exercises involving an American aircraft carrier.

utters regular military exercises between Washington and Seoul as a test of conquest.

North Korea has tested 15 rockets since it resumed testing activities on September 25th. One of them was a medium-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan and demonstrated a ray capable of reaching the territory of the American Pacific of Guam and beyond.

Tokyo imposed additional sanctions Tuesday against five North Korean organisations, including the Ministry of European Missile Industry and four commercial firms.

Some foreign experts say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will eventually aim to use his expanded arsenal of weapons to pressure the US and others to accept his country as a legitimate nuclear state and lift economic sanctions against them.