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North Korea has fired several artillery shells into South Korea
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak speaks at a meeting to report on a Ministry of Justice operation at the presidential Blue House in Seoul December 20, 2010. South Korean marines have ordered residents of Yeonpyeong island to move to air raid bunkers in anticipation of a live-fire drill on Monday.
South Korean protesters hold placards reading 'Stop a live-fire exercise on Yeonpyeong island!' during a rally denouncing South Korea's live-fire drills, outside the US embassy in Seoul on December 20, 2010. South Korea put its air force on alert as it prepared to start a live-fire exercise on the border island, despite North Korean threats of deadly retaliation.
S.Korea says sea fog delays start of live-fire drill
(AFP)
SEOUL — Sea fog has delayed the start of a live-fire drill on a South Korean border island, the defence ministry said, after announcing the exercise would go ahead Monday despite North Korean threats.
Spokesman Kim Min-Seok, announcing the delay, said the exercise on Yeonpyeong island would last less than two hours.
"The military is ready to start the drill anytime today if the weather improves," another ministry spokesman told AFP.
A similar artillery exercise by marines on Yeonpyeong on November 23 was answered by a North Korean bombardment which killed four people including civilians there and damaged dozens of homes.
The North has threatened an even deadlier response this time, saying the shells fired in such drills fall into its territorial waters. It refuses to recognise the Yellow Sea borderline.
It has started according to CNN.
Breaking News: South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises are under way, its defense ministry says. More details to come.
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/northkorea/?hpt=T1
Breaking News: South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises are under way, its defense ministry says. More details to come.
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/northkorea/?hpt=T1
YEONPYEONG, South Korea, Dec 20 (Reuters) - South Korea''s
military have fired dozens of artillery rounds during a live-fire
drill from the disputed island of Yeonpyeong on Monday, a Reuters
witness said.
"I can''t exactly tell how many (shells have been fired, some
are distant and some are noisy," said Reuters journalist Kim
Do-gyun, from an air-raid shelter on the island. "The bunker is
shaking and people here are worried."
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – Yonhap news agency says South Korea has ended maritime artillery drills from a front-line island attacked last month by North Korea.
A South Korean elderly woman watches a live TV breaking news about South Korea's live fire artillery at Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. South Korea fired live artillery Monday in a drill from a front-line island where similar exercises sparked a deadly North Korean bombardment last month, pressing forward in defiance of the North's warnings to attack again. The Korean words read "Start, Artillery Fire on 2:30 PM on Yeonpyeong Island."
South Korean residents and journalists gather with a marine at a shelter as South Korea fired live artillery in a drill on Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. Yonhap news agency says South Korea has ended maritime artillery drills from the front-line island attacked last month by North Korea.
In this image made from Associated Press Television News video, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, left, is greeted by Kim Yong Dae, vice president of Presidium of Supreme People's Assembly, before their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. Richardson, a frequent unofficial envoy to North Korea and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. , is on a four-day visit to Pyongyang.
In this image made from Associated Press Television News video, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, third from right, and Kim Yong Dae, third from left, vice president of North Korea's Presidium of Supreme People's Assembly, attend their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010.
SEOUL: North Korea has agreed with US troubleshooter Bill Richardson to permit the return of UN nuclear inspectors as part of a package of measures to ease tensions on the peninsula, CNN reported Monday.
CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer, who is travelling with Richardson in Pyongyang, said the North Koreans had agreed to let inspectors from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency go back to its Yongbyon nuclear facility.
They had also agreed to allow fuel rods for the enrichment of uranium to be shipped to an outside country, and to the creation of a military commission and hotline between the two Koreas and the United States, Blitzer said.
In Pyongyang over the weekend, Richardson met top nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-Gwan and Major General Pak Rim-Su, who leads North Korean forces along the tense border with the South.
Pak told Richardson that North Korea had recovered the remains of several hundred US servicemen killed during the 1950-1953 Korean War and offered to help secure their return to the United States, CNN said.
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