A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.

A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.

A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.

A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.

A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.

A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.

All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.

The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang's decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.