Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Army's armored vehicles prepare to cross the Hantan river at a training field in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, March 10, It called the weapons close-range but didn't say how far they flew. The military said South Korea bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely coordinating with the United States. Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.
The allies have already been engaging in diverse field training exercises in connection with the Freedom Shield training. This year's training came after the South Korean and U. About 30 people were injured, two of them seriously, when two South Korean KF fighter jets mistakenly fired eight MK bombs on a civilian area in Pocheon, a town near the North Korean border, on Thursday.
The bombing occurred while South Korean and U. The initial assessment from the South Korean air force was that one of the KF pilots entered the wrong coordinates and failed to visually verify the target before proceeding with the bombing. Both the South Korean and U. South Korean military officials say live-fire training will resume after they complete the investigation of the bombing and form preventative steps.
The South Korean air force earlier suspended the training flights of all its planes too but lifted the steps on Monday, except aircraft affiliated with the unit the two KFs belong to.
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