Seoul — North Korea on Thursday accused the South of unleashing more than 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds in an "armed provocation" at the tense demilitarised zone (DMZ), after Seoul’s forces fired warning shots at an object flying over the border. Seoul military officials initially suggested the item was a drone from the North following the incident on Tuesday, before saying on Wednesday that balloons carrying propaganda leaflets had blown in across the frontier, one of the most fortified locations in the world. Pyongyang weighed in on the issue on Thursday, with a spokesperson for its military telling the official Korean Central News Agency that the mysterious flying shape was simply "a flock of birds flying in the sky". The South was "caught by mental derangement" and "confrontation hysteria", it said, describing the demilitarised zone as "the most acute hotspot where huge troops of both sides constantly level their guns at each other". Tension has spiked in the region...
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