Starting from the first of November,... North Korea is set to halt all forms of live-fire artillery drills and close gun ports along the Northern Limit Line,... the de facto sea border between the two Koreas.
Such measures come as South and North Korea agreed to establish maritime buffer zones,... in accordance with the military accord the two sides signed last month in Pyeongyang.
Along its western coast,... the North has some one-thousand gun ports and numerous artilleries with a maximum range of 27 kilometers.