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Seoul, South Korea -- North Korean and South Korean military units exchanged gunfire near their border Friday, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported.
The exchange happened after North Korean forces fired two shots at a South Korean military guard post near the border in Hwacheon, South Korea, about 73 miles (118 km) northeast of Seoul, Yonhap reported, citing an official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The South Korean troops fired back, Yonhap said.
The demilitarized zone at the location of the shooting is 1.3 kilometers (o.8 miles) wide.
The incident occurred near the strategic town of Chorwon, which was the scene of heavy fighting during the 1950-53 Korean War.
While there are occasional shooting incidents across the demilitarized zones, the tensest flash point on the peninsula in recent years has been the disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
There were fatal naval clashes there in 1999 and 2002. In March this year, the sinking of a South Korean vessel killed 26 in what a South Korean and international investigation team concluded was a North Korean torpedo attack.
North Korea continues to deny involvement.
The prickly relationship between the countries since the Korean War has had periodic conciliatory moves and flare-ups.
North Korea has requested record shipments of rice and fertilizer in exchange for concessions on reuniting families separated by the war, which ended in a truce, but without a formal peace treaty, Yonhap said this week.
