North and South Korea troops have exchanged gunfire along their tense border on Sunday, which divides the two countries. According to the South’s military, the primary such occurrence since the rivals took phenomenal steps to lower front-line hatreds in late 2018.

Savage showdowns have sometimes happened along the border, the world’s most intensely braced. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said in an explanation that North Korean troops let go of a few bullets at a South Korean watch post interior the border zone. South Korea reacted with an add up to of 20 rounds of caution shots on two events sometime recently issuing a caution broadcast, it said.

According to the South Korean Military, South Korea suffered no casualties. Defense authorities said it’s moreover impossible that North Korea had any casualties since the South Korean caution shots were let go at uninhibited North Korean domain. The North’s official Korean Central News Office, or KCNA, did not instantly report approximately the incident. A preparatory South Korean examination appeared that North Korea’s terminating wasn’t likely a calculated incitement, in spite of the fact that Seoul will proceed to analyze whether there was an inspiration for the activity, a South Korean defense official said. He talked on condition of namelessness, citing division rules.

The demilitarized zone was set up after the Korean War in 1953 in arrange to form a buffer zone between the two countries. For the past two a long time, the government in Seoul has attempted to turn the intensely braced border into a peace zone.

The last time there was gunfire along the Korea border was in November 2017, when North Korean officers showered bullets at a colleague escaping to South Korea. The turncoat was hit five times, but survived and is presently living in South Korea. South Korea didn’t return fire.