Uh Oh.
What now, will this blatant attack and act of war go unanswered again?
How many times is South Korea gonna take a beating and keep on doing nothing.
The Washington Post
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border with artillery Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least one marine after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said.
South Korea said it returned fire and scrambled fighter jets in response, and said the "inhumane" attack on civilian areas violated the 1953 armistice halting the Korean War. The two sides technically remain at war because a peace treaty was never negotiated.
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is threatening to continue launching strikes against South Korea if it violates their disputed sea border "even 0.001 millimeter."
North Korea's supreme military command said Tuesday that it would "launch merciless military retaliatory strikes."
The warning was carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
NKorea threatens continued strikes on South
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
South Korea fires warning shots, second incident in days
North Korea just can not stop with their B.S.
(Reuters) - South Korea's navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves in Seoul ahead of next week's G20 summit.
The South Korean capital, about 100 km (60 miles) south of the demilitarized zone dividing the peninsula, is on heightened alert ahead of the summit over concerns Pyongyang may try to create an incident to embarrass its rival.
Washington has pressed Beijing to use its influence over the North not to create an incident in the run up to the meeting.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told a news conference in Seoul that he was not expecting any trouble from across the border.
"I don't think the North will try to do anything when leaders of the international community are meeting to discuss the world economy," he said. "I trust the North won't do anything but still we are fully prepared."
Friday, October 29, 2010
North, South Korea trade gunfire across tense border
Oh can you just feel the restraint.
Christian Science Monitor
North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire Friday evening in a remote mountain region about 70 miles northeast of Seoul, South Korean defense officials reported.
South Korea's joint chiefs of staff charged North Korean forces with "launching the first shots" at a South Korean guard post just below the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that has divided the Korean peninsula since the end of the Korean War in July 1953.
A South Korean defense official said South Korean soldiers had fired three shots back across the DMZ "under the rules of engagement."
The shootout was the first such flare-up on land in two years, but North and South Korean warships clashed in the west or Yellow Sea on several occasions before the South Korean Cheonan warship was torpedoed in March.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
North Korea to close border crossing
North Korea , The Worlds Biggest Baby ,Not liking what they see or here from the south , N.K. is shutting its border between the two divided countries!
Whats the point ? it will only harm and further cut off the people of North Korea !
South Korea will be just fine ! This is just one more tantrum from Little Kimmie ,to try and get his way!!International Herald Tribune
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SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea said Wednesday that it will stop all land crossings at its border with South Korea beginning next month, effectively suspending operations at a joint industrial complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation.
The announcement followed repeated warnings from the North that after a decade of reconciliation on the divided peninsula, relations between the two Koreas were deteriorating to a point approaching confrontation, because of the new conservative South Korean government's "anti-North Korean" attitudes.
Beginning Dec. 1, the North Korean military will "restrict and cut off all the overland passage" across the border, said the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency.
The move will idle tourist buses taking South Koreans to Kaesong, an ancient Korean city just north of the western land border. Kaesong is also the site of a joint industrial zone where South Korean factories employ cheap North Korean labor to produce textiles and kitchen utensils.
North Korea opened Kaesong to South Korean tourists and factories under the previous government in Seoul. It obtains badly needed cash income from tourist fees and factory wages, but by shutting Kaesong down, it can put pressure on Lee Myung-bak, the conservative South Korean president.Since Lee took office in February promising a harder line on North Korea, relations have rapidly chilled. Another tourism project in the North's Diamond Mountain on the eastern frontier was suspended earlier this year.
South Korea called the North's latest threat "regrettable." The Seoul government wants dialogue to discuss peace and cooperation with the North, Kim Ho-nyeon, a government spokesman, said in a statement.
