Forty-seven similar exercises have taken place this year but Thursdays maneuvers were scheduled in response to the North Korean attack, according to army officials.
Exactly one month ago, routine South Korean live-fire drills from Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea triggered a shower of North Korean artillery that killed two marines and two construction workers. It was the first military attack on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce.
North Korea, which claims the waters around the South Korean-held island lying just 7 miles from its shores as its territory, accused the South of sparking the exchange by ignoring Pyongyangs warnings against staging the live-fire drills near their disputed maritime border.
Amid international concerns of all-out war on the tense Korean peninsula, South Korea has pushed ahead with military exercises over the past several weeks, including live-fire drills from Yeonpyeong Island and Thursdays exercises.
We will thoroughly punish the enemy if it provokes us again as with the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, Brig. Gen. Ju Eun-sik, chief of the South Korean armys 1st Armored Brigade, said in a statement Wednesday.
North Korea issued a statement calling the South Korean drills provocative and offensive, state-run media said. However, the statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, did not threaten retaliation.
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