South Korea has conducted live-fire drills at a firing range near the North Korean border for the first time in six years.

The South Korean military said in a statement on Tuesday that the manoeuvres were conducted on the front line in Gyeonggi and Gangwon areas, near the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas.

The drills are the first to be conducted on land since the government suspended a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at easing military tensions.
On 4 June, South Korean President Yun Suk-yol suspended a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at easing military tensions in response to North Korea sending balloons containing “garbage”.