Defense Minister of South Korea Resigned
Worldwide, Daily news | Varduhi Ishkhanyan | November 25, 2010 17:18
Defense Minister of South Korea’s Kim Tae-Yong, has resigned. On this November 25 reported Agence France-Presse, with reference to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
According to the agency, retired minister has already accepted South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
Dismiss Kim Tae-Yong, and other senior military officials earlier urged lawmakers from the ruling party of South Korea. In their view, the military could not provide a coordinated response to the shelling of the island Enphendo DPRK on Nov. 23.
The bombardment of North Korean artillery base of the armed forces of South Korea on the island Enphendo killed four people: two members of marines and two civilians. Another 18 people were injured.
Seoul called the firing of North Korean provocation. North Korea, meanwhile, said that the shelling was in response to provocation by Southerners: according to Pyongyang, during exercises in the Yellow Sea South Korean ships violated the border and fired several rounds in the direction of the territorial waters of the DPRK.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called armed incident on Nov. 23 the most serious incident of this kind since the Korean War in 1953. Formal peace agreement between North and South Korea then signed.
DPRK’s actions condemned by many countries, primarily the United States. On November 28, assigned to the beginning of joint exercises, the U.S. Navy and South Korea.
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