South Korea carries out military drill despite threats from North

South Korea has fired live artillery in a military drill near the country’s heavily armed border with North Korea, which has described the exercise as a provocation.

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Post date February 20, 2012

(CNN) Seoul – The drill Monday involved howitzers, mortars and attack helicopters, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. It took place on islands off the west coast of the Korean peninsula where tensions have flared in the past.

Seoul notified the North on Sunday of the drill, a regular live-fire exercise that lasts an hour. About 1,000 island residents were moved to safe areas during the drill, Yonhap reported, citing military officials.