Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the initial reports on the shots fired from North Korea into South Korea on Sunday morning indicate they were “accidental.”
“I’ve seen that reporting too. I’ve seen some of our internal information as well. We can confirm at least the initial reports are that you’ve described are just about right. A handful of shots that came across from the North. We think those were accidental. South Koreans did return fire so far as we can tell there was no loss of life on either side,” Pompeo said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
North Korea fired gunshots at the wall of a South Korean guard post in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer area that separates the two countries, on Sunday, and the South fired back, according to its military.
“Regardless of any of that, our mission is, remains the same — to convince the North Koreans to give up their nuclear weapons, to verify the same and to then create a brighter future for the North Korean people.”, Pompeo said.
