An accident during a routine ROK military exercise near the inter-Korean border caused a machine gun to fire bullets toward North Korea, though they fell well short of DPRK territory, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday.
Media reports over the weekend said that a front-line unit in Gangwon Province fired four rounds at around 6:27 p.m. Saturday KST, citing unnamed military sources. The unit immediately broadcast multiple notices to the North that the discharge was not intentional, the reports added.
An accident during a routine ROK military exercise near the inter-Korean border caused a machine gun to fire bullets toward North Korea, though they fell well short of DPRK territory, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday.
Media reports over the weekend said that a front-line unit in Gangwon Province fired four rounds at around 6:27 p.m. Saturday KST, citing unnamed military sources. The unit immediately broadcast multiple notices to the North that the discharge was not intentional, the reports added. 
Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim
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