N Korea Fired Artillery onto S Korea
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omgwtfbbq sauce: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11818005
Artillery fire on Korean border
South Korea says it has returned fire after North Korea fired around 200 artillery shells onto one of its border islands, reportedly killing one marine.
The South's military was placed on its highest non-wartime alert after the shells landed on Yeonpyeong island.
North Korea has not yet commented on the incident, in which three marines and two civilians were also injured.
Correspondents say this is one of the most serious since the the Korean War ended without a peace treaty in 1953.
There have been occasional cross-border clashes since, but the latest incident comes at a time of rising regional tension.
North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is believed to be ill and trying to engineer the succession of his youngest son. And on Saturday, North Korea showed off what it claimed was a new uranium enrichment facility - potentially giving it a second route to a nuclear weapon.
The move prompted the US special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, to rule out the resumption of six-party talks on resolving the nuclear issue.
South Korean presidential spokesman Kim Hee-jung also said it was investigating a possible link between the artillery attack and recent maritime exercises near the western sea border earlier on Tuesday.
'Illegal firing'
South Korean officials said artillery rounds began landing on Yeonpyeong island, near the disputed inter-Korean maritime border about 100km (60 miles) west of the Korean Peninsula.
(To be continued...)
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"A North Korean artillery unit staged an illegal firing provocation at 1434 (0534 GMT) and South Korean troops fired back immediately in self-defence," the defence ministry said.
A resident on the island, where between 1,200 and 1,300 people live, told the AFP news agency that dozens of houses were damaged, while television pictures showed plumes of smoke rising above the island.
"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN television station. "People are frightened to death."
The military said one marine was killed and three others were injured, according to South Korea's YTN television. Two civilians were also hurt.
The South Korean military has fired 80 artillery shells in response and also deployed fighter jets to Yeonpyeong.
However, President Lee Myung-bak urged officials attending an emergency cabinet meeting to try to prevent any further escalation.
A spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry said that both countries should "do more to contribute to peace".
"What's imperative now is to restart six-party talks as soon as possible," Hong Lei told a news conference in Beijing.
News of the incident has already been felt on international financial markets, with both the Korean won and the Japanese yen falling in value.
This western maritime border, also known as the Northern Limit Line, has been the scene of numerous clashes between the two Koreas in the past.
In March, a South Korean warship went down near the border with the loss of 46 lives.
International investigators say a North Korean torpedo sank the ship, although Pyongyang has denied any role in the incident.
Since then relations between the two neighbours have remained tense.
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N.Korea shells S.Korea island, 4 troops wounded
SEOUL (AFP) - – Several North Korean artillery shells landed on a South Korean border island Tuesday wounding four soldier, damaging homes and injuring two civilians, YTN television reported.
A resident of Yeonpyeong island near the tense Yellow Sea border told YTN by phone that some 50 shells landed and dozens of houses were damaged.
The South's defence ministry could not immediately confirm damage or casualties.
"A North Korean artillery unit staged an illegal firing provocation at 2:34 pm (0534 GMT) and South Korean troops fired back immediately in self-defence," a ministry spokesman told AFP.
Another island resident, Lee Jong-Sik, told YTN: "At least 10 houses are burning. I can't see clearly for the smoke. The hillsides are also on fire.
"We were told by loudspeakers to flee our homes."
TV footage showed huge plumes of smoke rising from the island.
The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that some shells landed directly on the island, where a South Korean Marine detachment is based, and others in nearby waters.
The incident comes amid high cross-border tensions over the North's nuclear programme and the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship near the border in March.
-- Yahoo! News
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hong gan liao loh..........
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NO PEACE! WAR IS THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION TO ERADICATE THESE KOREANS!!
JUST DIE PLEASE!
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BBC reported South Korean returned fire and lobbed about 200 shells into North Korea...
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The stage has been set, the actors are ready, the show has begun, the audience are watching.
PLEASE ERADICATE THEMSELVES AND JUST DIE ALREADY.
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Originally posted by parn:
The stage has been set, the actors are ready, the show has begun, the audience are watching.
PLEASE ERADICATE THEMSELVES AND JUST DIE ALREADY.
you should lead by example
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Originally posted by the Bear:
you should lead by example
Ohh you want me to lead you?Ok lor....I command you to eradicate yourself to demonstrate as a living example to all Koreans.
Didn't expect you to make that suggestion, but I think it's a great suggestion for useless people like you to die for the greater good.
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UPDATE: 1 S. Korean soldier killed as N. Korea fires artillery near western border
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - North Korea fired dozens of coastal artillery shells, some of which fell on the South's Yeonpyaong Island near the tense western inter-Korean border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
"The North fired dozens of artillery rounds from its Gaemeori western coastal artillery base at 14:34 p.m. In response to the military provocations, we fired back dozens of rounds with K9 self-propelled howitzers," JCS spokesman Col. Lee Bung-woo told reporters.
In the artillery firing, one soldier was killed and four marine solider were seriously injured. The military was trying to evacuate civilians on the island near the border. Several civilians were reported to have suffered injuries.
The firing came as the South was carrying out a live-fire exercise in waters off the Bangnyeong Island and the Yeonpyeong Island as part of the annual nine-day Hoguk Exercise, aimed at enhancing inter-operability and defense capabilities against North Korea.
Regarding the Hoguk Exercise, the North sent a faxed message to the South in the morning, saying it would not "just sit back" while the South is carrying out the live-fire exercise, according to JCS officials.
"Our military has begun operating the crisis management system and strengthened a readiness posture in all military branches. We are fully and firmly prepared to respond to additional North Korean provocations," Lee said.
The JSC called on the North to immediately stop acts that ratchet up military tension on the peninsula and inter-Korean confrontations. "We will strongly respond to any further provocations from the North," the spokesman said.
The presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae said it was looking into whether the North fired the artillery in reaction to the South Korean navy's 'Hoguk Exercise' near the island.
"North Korea wired a complaint this morning asking whether (the exercise) was an attack against the North," President Lee Myung-bak's spokesperson Kim Hee-jung said during a press briefing.
Lee held emergency meetings of his top aides and security related ministers in the afternoon.
The volley of artillery came as tensions have run high between the two Koreas following the March 26 sinking of the corvette Cheonan, which Seoul holds Pyongyang responsible for.
The Seoul-led multinational investigation team concluded in May that a North Korean midget submarine torpedoed the 1,200-ton corvette, killing 46 sailors. Pyongyang has persistently denied its involvement.
In August, the North fired some 130 coastal artillery shells into waters near the western inter-Korean maritime border. Some 10 coastal artillery shells landed in waters about 1-2 kilometers south of the Northern Limit Line off Bangnyeong Island.
The volley of the artillery fire came after the South Korean military finished its five-day maritime maneuvers in the West Sea, which were designed to enhance its defense capabilities against North Korean provocations.
The artillery firing came as a surprise as North Korea experts here largely anticipated that the communist state would seek to improve ties with its southern neighbor as it has been striving to solidify its second hereditary power succession.
The North has recently made it public that its leader Kim Jong-il's youngest son Jung-un is being groomed to succeed his ailing father. Jung-un has recently been made a four-star general and appointed as vice chairman of the ruling Worker's Party's Central Military Commission.
-- Yahoo! News
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My Taiwanese friends are cheering. lol
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Originally posted by BadzMaro:
My Taiwanese friends are cheering. lol
Ask them to flee for their lives while they still can, cos Taiwan is next in line on the north korea's plans for world supremacy.Can you ask them to scream while they are fleeing please?
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NK should use their nuke shells instead of just conventional shells
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Korean war 2?
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Originally posted by parn:
Ask them to flee for their lives while they still can, cos Taiwan is next in line on the north korea's plans for world supremacy.Can you ask them to scream while they are fleeing please?
U tell them. All i know is.. whatever the outcome is.. they have one less korea to deal with. lol
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It is soon time for the Korean Dominion to hand over military command to its leading RTS champions. Expect Korean rushes and tactical nukes, everyone else, to the bunkers!
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Originally posted by parn:
Ohh you want me to lead you?Ok lor....I command you to eradicate yourself to demonstrate as a living example to all Koreans.
Didn't expect you to make that suggestion, but I think it's a great suggestion for useless people like you to die for the greater good.
You might as well petition for any country with nuclear weapons to just nuke North and/or South Korea and get it over with.And soon, woosh, we'll have no countries left on Earth!
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I better go kiwi my boots, dust my helmet and wash my no.4.
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Originally posted by Dejomel:
You might as well petition for any country with nuclear weapons to just nuke North and/or South Korea and get it over with.And soon, woosh, we'll have no countries left on Earth!
MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction.
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go go go NKorea...............forza NKorea.............viva NKorea................
may Nkorea end the reign of those horrid SKorean drama serials...................
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Wait for US to send their troops.
Meanwhile can kill each other first.
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Ok, I no need to think about going there to work le.
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it's ok, the pretty korean boys can come here.
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Fasterly go buy US armaments stock.
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Korean boys will all go to the front lines, only the ah guas and uncles will come here.