North Korea fired close to 100 artillery shells into the East Sea on Monday in a continuation of recent military activity conducted near the North-South border.

The shells were fired from a location close to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea and landed in waters north of the disputed maritime border, the Northern Limit Line (NLL).

“North Korea fired off about 100 artillery shells in a northeast direction into the East Sea for about 30 minutes from 11:43 a.m. from a place hundreds of meters away from the DMZ in Goseong, Gangwon Province,” South Korean Joint