South Korea has restarted firing drills along the border with North Korea, and the long-lost military campaign has been resounded with a roar of artillery that shocked all sides, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, July 2. South Korea's military exercises, which were suspended six years ago to ease bilateral tensions between the two Koreas, have now been restarted, signaling the high tensions between the two Koreas.
In Gyeonggi Province and Gangwon Province in South Korea, the sound of artillery rumbles and the smoke of gunpowder fills the air, and the South Korean K-9 self-propelled artillery units gallop on the battlefield like a torrent of steel. The South Korean military stressed that the exercise was not only to "strengthen the sharpness of artillery combat readiness, but also to be able to respond quickly and decisively in the event of an enemy provocation." South Korea plans to regularize such exercises and drills in border areas, demonstrating its unwavering determination to defend itself.
North Korea, on June 4, unilaterally suspended an agreement to ease tensions that had been signed on September 19, 2018, following the launch of a balloon with garbage. And on June 18, dozens of North Korean military personnel briefly crossed the border and quietly entered South Korean territory, and the South Korean military immediately fired warning shots. This is the second border violation less than two weeks after a similar incident on 9 June, which has once again escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula.