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The intentions of North's shots, fired at South Korean troops stationed at a guard post, remain unknown.
The gunshots came just hours after Pyongyang threatened to retaliate for Seoul's refusal to hold military-level talks, calling the rejection an "act of treachery," and two weeks before Seoul is set to host the G-20 summit, a meeting of leaders of the world's 20 largest economies.
The incident appeared to be the first on-land exchange of gunfire since August 2007