SEOUL – Tensions between North Korea and South Korea are running high this week after Pyongyang sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council, repeating accusations that Seoul fabricated a September land mine incident, and after a North Korean howitzer was spotted close to the border.
A witness at an observatory in South Korea overlooking the heavily armed border on ?Monday confirmed the presence of a North Korean artillery piece positioned in clear view near the frontier.
South Korea’s ?Yonhap news agency on Sunday identified the weapon as a self-propelled 122-mm howitzer, saying its deployment near the border marked a rare public display of such artillery.
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