North Korea Fires Over 130 Artillery Rounds as Warning Amid US-South Korea Military Drill

South Korean soldiers participate in a river crossing exercise with U.S. soldiers in Yeoju, South Korea, on Oct. 19, 2022. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

North Korea fired more than 130 naval shells into its sea boundaries early on Monday in retaliation for South Korea executing a joint military drill with the United States, according to the Korean People’s Army (KPA).

An unidentified spokesperson for the KPA said in a statement that the barrage of artillery shells was fired between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. local time from multiple rocket launchers off its east and west coasts in what the official described as a “tit-for-tat” move, state-run KCNA news agency reported.