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North Korea has fired several artillery shells into South Korea
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Gen Hwang Eui-Don, (R) South Korea's Army Chief of Staff
South Korea's army chief resigns
14 December 2010
The head of South Korea's army, Gen Hwang Eui-don, has resigned, officials at the defence ministry have said.
The reasons for his resignation have not been given, but he had faced criticism over capital gains he made through a Seoul property deal.
His resignation comes amid rising tensions over North Korea's shelling of a Southern island.
Former Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young resigned over the shelling, which killed four people.
Gen Hwang was promoted to the army's chief of staff in June this year.
"Gen Hwang offered to retire following media reports about his property investment because he judged it was inappropriate for him to stay on the post at a time when he has to lead the reform of the army," Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed ministry of defence official as saying.
There have been reports in the South Korean media that he was suspected of buying a property in Seoul in 2002 with advance knowledge that building restrictions would soon be eased.
The general has denied the allegations, saying he had no knowledge of the impending changes.
South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally denouncing Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's remarks on a possible dispatch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces to the Korean Peninsula in case of contingencies, in front of Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010.
Pro-unification activists attend an anti-Japan protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul December 14, 2010. The activists, remembering the history from Japan's forced occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945, denounced Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan who said that he may deploy Japan's Self-Defense Forces to Korean peninsula to rescue Japanese citizens in case of certain contingencies, according to local media. A sign (C) reads,"(We denounce) triangular alliance of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan".
Tourists look toward North Korea from an observation post, just south of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas in Goseong, about 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Seoul December 14, 2010. South Korea believes that the North has been secretly enriching uranium at new locations outside its main nuclear site, the country's foreign minister said on Friday, declining to say how many sites there were.
Kim Kwang-hoon, left, a former North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea, explains North Korea's self-propelled artillery during a rally denouncing North Korea's Nov. 23 bombardment on South Korean border island of Yeonpyeong, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. North Korea on Monday threatened that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the Korean peninsula, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North's deadly shelling of the island.
A South Korean air force fighter flies over central Seoul during a civil defence drill in preparation for possible air attacks by North Korea December 15, 2010. South Korea on Wednesday held its largest civil defence drill in recent years, which brought traffic to a standstill nationwide and saw mass evacuations to bomb shelters.
Vehicles come to a stop short of Hannam Bridge during a civil defense drill against a possible North Korea's attack, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. South Koreans stopped work, donned gas masks and headed to underground shelters Wednesday in the country's biggest-ever civil evacuation drill staged amid tension over North Korea's artillery bombardment last month.
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