North Korea opens fire after South Korea’s warning shots

 North Korea fired ten shots from multiple launch rocket systems in response to South Korea’s warning shots, the Korean Central News Agency said on Monday

"The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army  ordered to make ten shots from multiple launch rocket systems in order to force the adversary’s vessel to retreat," the news agency informed.

 There were no reports of clashes, but the poorly marked sea boundary off the Korean Peninsula’s west coast is a source of long-running animosities between the two countries. It is the scene of several bloody inter-Korean naval skirmishes and violence in recent years, including North Korea’s shelling of a South Korean island and its alleged torpedoing of a South Korean navy ship that killed 50 people in 2010.