Monday, July 31, 2006; Posted: 9:36 p.m. EDT (01:36 GMT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Soldiers from North Korea and South
Korea exchanged fire along their border late Monday, but no one was
hurt, a South Korean military official said Tuesday.
The incident happened shortly before sunset when North Korean
soldiers fired two bullets towards a South Korean guard post in the
eastern part of the Demilitarized Zone, said Maj. Kim Tae-hoon of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff office.
South Korean soldiers immediately fired back six rounds, Kim
said.
He said South Korea does not know what prompted the North troops to
open fire and the secretive communist country has not said anything
to the South about it.
The U.N. Military Armistice Commission, which supervises the
cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, will asked the North
on Tuesday for an explanation of the incident.
The fighting ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, meaning
that the two Koreas are still technically in a state of
conflict.
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