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EU calls for avoiding 'provocations' on Korea border

21 August 2015, 11:27 CET
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(BRUSSELS) - The EU said Friday it was worried by worsening friction between North and South Korea and called for efforts to avoid "provocations" after the two sides swapped artillery fire.

"We are concerned by increasing tensions on the border. We call to avoid provocations," an EU foreign affairs spokesman told AFP, without saying to which side Brussels was making the appeal.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un put his frontline troops on a war footing Friday to back up an ultimatum for South Korea to halt propaganda broadcasts across the border.

Tensions on the divided Korean peninsula soared following an exchange of artillery fire on Thursday that put the South Korean army on maximum alert.

Officials in the 28-nation European Union (EU) are "monitoring" events and are in "close contact with our partners," including the South Korean government through the EU delegation in Seoul and its embassy in Brussels, the spokesman said.


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