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		</div><p>South Korean and US troops have been conducting live firing exercises this week to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea, South Korea’s military said.</p>
<p>The two forces regularly conduct live-fire and other training, but this week’s drills come after Hamas’ October 7 assault on Israel raised security jitters in South Korea, which shares the world’s most heavily fortified border with rival North Korea.</p>
<p>Experts say the North’s forward-deployed long-range artillery guns can fire about 16,000 rounds per hour in the event of a conflict, posing a serious threat to Seoul, which is about 25 to 30 miles from the border.</p>
<p>The three-day firing exercises, which began on Wednesday, involved 5,400 South Korean and US soldiers, 300 artillery systems, 1,000 vehicles and air force assets, according to South Korea’s military.</p>
<p>In a simulated response to “the enemy’s (possible) Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks,” the exercises practiced strikes designed to “remove the origins of the enemy’s long-range artillery provocations at an early date,” South Korea’s Ground Operations Command said in a statement.</p>
<p>North Korea did not immediately react to the drills. It typically views major US-South Korean military training as invasion rehearsals and responds with missile tests.</p>
<p>South Korea and the United States have been expanding their regular military drills in the face of North Korea’s advancing nuclear programme.</p>
<p>Since last year, North Korea has carried out more than 100 missile tests, some of them simulated nuclear attacks on South Korea and the US.</p>
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