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00:02 North Korea fired over 200 artillery rounds into the maritime buffer zone near South Korea's
00:07 Yeonpyeong and Pyongyang islands on Friday morning. The shells landed north of the northern
00:11 limit line, a disputed border from the Korean War era. South Korea condemned the act as provocative
00:16 and threatened countermeasures. It conducted its own artillery drills in the area later on Friday.
00:21 Yeonpyeong residents were evacuated to shelters during the South Korean drills as a precaution.
00:26 The NLL has long been a flashpoint and North Korea rejects it and wants the border further south.
00:30 In 2010, North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong island, killing two South Koreans.
00:34 It remains heavily militarized due to its proximity to North Korea.
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