A naval gun attached to a South Korean patrol boat has misfired due to unidentified technical defects, wounding a sailor on board, Navy officers said Thursday.
The 76-millimeter naval gun on a guided-missile patrol killer, or PKG, "misfired late Wednesday as the ship was returning to Pyeongtaek port, some 76 kilometers south of Seoul, after canceling its planned firing drill due to the gun's prior malfunctioning," a naval officer said.