(Updated at 4:59 p.m. KST on Oct. 19, 2022 with new DPRK army statement on Wednesday afternoon drills)

North Korea fired around 250 rounds of artillery from east and west coast areas late Tuesday night, according to the South Korean military, in what the DPRK army called “warning shots” against ongoing ROK exercises earlier that day.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said North Korea fired the artillery into an inter-Korean buffer zone in “clear violation” of the two sides’ Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), under which they agreed not to conduct military exercises near the border.

“The ROK army detected