![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/north-korean-missile-lands-nearest-to-south-korea-since-1953/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20295681-1667383273213.jpg&description=A NORTH Korean missile has landed the nearest to South Korea than anytime since 1953, sparking fears of an all-out war. At least 25 missiles and 100 artillery pieces landed less than 40 miles off South Korea's coast in an attack described as a "territorial encroachment" by the country's president, Yoon Suk-yeol. North Korea launched 25 missiles in waters close to its southern neighbourCredit: AFP North Korea fired ten artillery rockets early on MondayCredit: AFP or licensors AFP OR LICENSORS Kim Jong Un has threaten nuclear Armageddon if US-South Korea war games continueCredit: AP It's the closest ever strike on South Korea and the most rockets fired in a single day. It's also the first time Pyongyang's missiles crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) - the de facto sea boundary between the two Koreas. Seoul issued air raid sirens and retaliated by launching three of its own missiles, according to a local report. Yoon's office vowed a "swift and firm response" and said Pyongyang would "pay the price for provocation". "North Korea's provocation today was an effective act of territorial encroachment by a missile intruding the NLL for the first time since (the two Koreas') division," Yoon's office said. Kim Jong-Un's men fired 14 various types of missiles, including three short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. A report also claim another six surface-to-air missiles were launched in the later hours of Wednesday evening local time. The JCS said at least one of the missiles landed 16 miles south of the NLL, 35 miles from the South Korean city of Sokcho, on the east coast, and 103 miles from the island of Ulleung, where air raid warnings were issued. The North also fired more than 100 rounds of artillery from its east coast into a military buffer zone established in a military agreement with the South, South Korea's military said. The huge volley of launches were "provocations against South Korea," said Go Myong-hyun, a researcher at){kind=link}
A NORTH Korean missile has landed the nearest to South Korea than anytime since 1953, sparking fears of an all-out war.
At least 25 missiles and 100 artillery pieces landed less than 40 miles off South Korea’s coast in an attack described as a “territorial encroachment” by the country’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol.
It’s the closest ever strike on South Korea and the most rockets fired in a single day.
It’s also the first time Pyongyang’s missiles crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) – the de facto sea boundary between the two Koreas.
Seoul issued air raid sirens and retaliated by launching three of its own missiles, according to a local report.