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Why North Korea might have fired on South Korea

By Tom Rogan
Published May 3, 2020 5:07pm ET
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Why North Korea might have fired on South Korea
In this Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, photo, North Korean soldiers salute as others bow before the giant bronze statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il during the anniversary of the end of World War II and liberation from Japanese colonial rule in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea has marked the anniversary with a series of ceremonies ahead of what is expected to be a much bigger event next month, the 70th anniversary of its national foundation day. | (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Don’t read too much into the North Korean gunfire on Sunday against South Korean forces at the border of the Demilitarized Zone.

The North Korean shots hit a South Korean guard tower and precipitated a mild South Korean return of fire. But no one on either side is believed to have been wounded.

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