(CNN) -- North Korea warned Friday it would launch a military strike against the South if Seoul goes ahead with live-fire drills near Yeonpyeong Island over the next five days, North Korea's state-run KCNA reported. South Korea "should take a prompt measure to stop the planned provocative maritime shelling from Yeonpyeong Island," the report said. The Korean People's Army "will deal the second and third unpredictable self-defensive blow at them to protect the inviolable territorial waters of" North Korea "as it had declared before the world." The Russian Foreign Ministry also warned against the drills in a meeting Friday among Deputy Foreign Minister Alexi Borodavkin, U.S. ambassador John Beyrle and Lee Younho, the South Korean ambassador to Moscow, according to a statement posted to the ministry's website.
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NEW: Russian Foreign Ministry urges United States and South Korea to call off military drill
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November drill on Yeonpyeong Isand resulted shelling by North Korea, four deaths
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North Korea says it will deliver a "self-defensive blow" to the South if military exercise takes place
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Yeonpyeong Island is a flashpoint between the Koreas
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Tensions mounted between the @placeholder on November 23, when North Korea shelled the island, which lies in South Korean territory.
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Last month's attack was the first direct artillery assault on @placeholder since 1953, when an armistice ended fighting.