朝鮮韓國火炮交火後相互指責

North and South Korea traded verbal volleys Thursday, a day after an artillery exchange in waters near their Yellow Sea border caused tensions to h Korea, in a statement released on its official news agency, flatly denied South Korean charges that it fired off a handful of artillery shells, sparking Wednesday's exchange. It said the South must have been confused by blasting at a construction site near the border.

South Korean officials responded there is no doubt that the North fired the shots, and dismissed its claims as typical of a country that routinely denies its provocations. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to reporters in Seoul on Thursday, said the artillery exchange left him concerned and regretful. He said the exchange shows the situation on the Korean peninsula remains unstable.朝鮮和韓國星期三在黃海交界水域發生交火，導致局勢緊張，星期四雙方相互指責。朝鮮在官方通訊社發表聲明，斷然否認韓國指其星期三發射多發炮彈因而引發交火的指控。朝鮮說，韓國一定是將邊界附近一處建築施工地點的爆炸作業誤當作炮擊。

韓國官員說，朝鮮開炮的事實無庸置疑，並指朝鮮一貫否認其挑釁行爲，不足爲信。聯合國祕書長潘基文週四在首爾對記者說，對朝鮮和韓國炮兵交火感到關切和遺憾。他說，這顯示朝鮮半島的局勢仍然不穩定。