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In response the South Korean military fired tens of artillery rounds towards North Korea.

More than 28,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea to protect against a possible invasion from North Korea. No deaths or injuries have been reported.

Pakistan on Monday lodged a strong protest against unprovoked ceasefire violations by Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nakial Sector (Kotli).

South Korea on Monday ordered border propaganda operations against North Korea to resume for the first time in 11 years, in retaliation for landmine blasts that maimed two of its soldiers during a frontier patrol.

The mutual propaganda attacks mark a further deterioration of relations between the two Korean states that have engaged in no serious talks in recent months.

North Korea on Saturday demanded that the South halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers along the border or face military action, a day after it denied Seoul’s accusation that it planted landmines that wounded two South Korean soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the border guard the demilitarized zone that bisects the peninsula, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

Since yesterday mortar shelling and heavy firing going on overnight in Hamirpur, Sujiyan, in Mandi sectors along LoC in Poonch.

Javaid Mujtaba Geelani, inspector general of police (IGP), Kashmir, told reporters in Srinagar that “Adequate security arrangements have been made in Srinagar city and other places in the valley to ensure militants are not able to disrupt normalcy”.

But the defence ministry said further tests had confirmed “they were North Korean land mines – planted with the intention to kill”.

The widow of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung left for North Korea under tight security Wednesday, after an anti-Pyongyang group had threatened to blow up her plane.

The clocks are to be turned back 30 minutes, which will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind both South Korea and Japan, which are at GMT+9:00.

Since then, Japan, North Korea and South Korea have run on the same local time – nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Back in 2007, Venezuela also decided to turn its clocks to use the daytime more effectively.

Last week South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited “credible intelligence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had personally ordered a satellite launch to mark the anniversary.