Defense ministry: South Korea ends live-fire drill

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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's live-fire military exercise has ended, the country's defense ministry said Monday.

The drill started about two hours earlier Monday afternoon, and fighter jets took to the sky in preparation for possible retaliation by North Korea.

North Korea had said the drill could ignite a war and that it would respond militarily to the exercise, but the country did not act immediately on Monday.

Instead, the North agreed to a series of actions after former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson urged the country not to respond aggressively.

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