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North Korea WAR threat: South Korea forced to fire at 'MISSILE' sent across the border

WARNING shots have been fired by South Korean armed forces towards an unidentified object flying over the border from North Korea, a military official told Reuters.

The military was trying to analyse what the object was, the official added. Yonhap News Agency said the military fired roughly 90 machine gun shots.

Early suggestions are the flying object was a drone sent by the secretive state.

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A spokesman for South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said: “The military is on high alert and air surveillance has been strengthened.”

The shots were fired at about 4pm local time at South Korea’s Gangwon province.

The unidentified object was said to have flown over the demilitarised zone - a 4k-wide line built in 1953.

It follows North Korea's defence of recent missile tests.

The hermit state said they were legitimate acts of self-defence by a "fully-fledged nuclear power" and are not against international law, North Korean diplomat Ju Yong Chol told the UN Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday.

He said: ”It is the United States' hostile policy and its aggressive joint military drills, nuclear threats and military build-up around the Korean peninsula that really aggravates the situation on the Korean peninsula and the region and which compels the DPRK to also up its nuclear deterrence.”

US Ambassador Robert Wood responded that it was "ridiculous" to claim North Korea's actions were legal.

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