DAY BREAK 06:00 N. Korea issues threat after Koreas exchange fire across border HD

ARIRANG NEWS 06:00 Coming up today,... after an exchange of fire, North Korea threatens further "military action" against South Korea if Seoul doesn′t shut off loudspeakers at the inter-Korean border. President Park Geun-hye will travel China early next month to attend a ceremony highlighting the 70th anniversary of Japan′s surrender in World War II. She′ll also hold summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Plus,... the search for the suspect behind the deadly Bangkok blast continues. Thai police say the bombing was ′unlikely′ linked to international terrorism. Stay tuned for these stories and more. Hello and welcome... it′s six AM on Friday, August twenty-first here in Seoul. I′m Mark Broome and you′re tuned into our early morning edition of Arirang News. Title: N. Korea issues threat after Koreas exchange fire across border Our top story this morning... North Korea has warned that it will take further military action if South Korea continues to broadcast anti-Pyongyang material across the border. Pyongyang on Thursday said Seoul had 48 hours to power down the loudspeakers. The threat came a matter of hours after the North attempted to fire on one of the speakers. South Korea retaliated by firing artillery rounds back the other way. For a wrap-up of the day′s events,... Kim Hyun-bin reports. It was 3:53 p.m. and 4:12 p.m. on Thursday when North Korea fired several artillery shells across the border targeting South Korea′s propaganda loudspeakers right along the military demarcation line. Seoul’s defense ministry announced earlier Thursday that a shell firing was picked up on radar moving towards the South′s western front,... but that there were no reports of damage. An hour or so after the attack, the South Korean military responded with tens of 155mm artillery rounds at the origin of attack. "Our military has up its security condition to the highest level and looking for any unusual movements from North Korea. We will strongly counter any future provocation from the North." The ministry said an evacuation order was issued for nearby areas, and more than two thousand residents were evacuated. Even the highest alert, Jindogae-1, was issued along some parts of the border. North Korea′s general staff department warned that South Korea has 48 hours to stop broadcasting anti-Pyongyang messages or it will take strong military action. In a separate letter, North Korea′s ruling Workers′ Party secretary Kim Yang-Gon urged the head of South Korea′s National Security Office, Kim Kwan-jin, to halt all propaganda broadcasts, calling the messages a declaration of war. The letter also said North Korea would make efforts to improve inter-Korean ties if the South shuts down the loudspeakers. But South Korea′s defense ministry says it has no plans to stop the broadcasts. North Korea has refused to admit or apologize for recent landmine explosions in the DMZ that severely injured two South Korean soldiers. T