"North Korea Escalates Tensions with Artillery Fire and Provocation Warnings Near Southern Border"

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned that North Korea would launch an immediate military strike in response to any provocation. This statement followed incidents where North Korea fired artillery rounds near the disputed maritime border with South Korea, which conducted its own fire drills in response. South Korea's military has called the North's actions low-level psychological warfare and has urged a cessation of activities that escalate tensions.