South Korea is Preparing for New Provocations from North Korea
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | November 27, 2010 18:05
Necessary “to fully undertake the preparation, based on cooperation with U.S. forces to counter a possible new provocation” by North Korea.
About it, ITAR-TASS news agency, said President Lee Myung-bak at a meeting with ministers and officials involved in securing the country.
At the same meeting, the head of state has called for urgent measures to normalize the life of the population on the island Enphendo who shelled by the DPRK.
Recall, on November 23 escalated in recent years relations between the two Koreas escalated into armed conflict. The parties accused each other of provoking hostilities. In Seoul, claimed that on that day around 8:30 MSK army shelling of the DPRK held one of the South Korean border islands with a population of about 1 thousand 300 people. In response to the shelling of South Korea opened fire from self-propelled howitzers and flew the F-16 fighters. DPRK authorities claimed that South Korea was the first to start shelling the territory of North Korea’s firing positions of the DPRK several dozen artillery shells. According to the version of Pyongyang, North Korea fired on the territories began at 07:00 MSK, to which the Korean People’s Army immediately responded with decisive action.”
At Enphendo burned 70% of forests and fields, destroyed or damaged by fire more than 20 homes and buildings, as well as eight public buildings. Work is underway to restore electricity and communications.
Today in South Korea held the funeral of two soldiers killed in the shelling of the DPRK. According to “Komsomolskaya Pravda, the commander of the Marine Corps, which served as the deaths, said the funeral speech, promised that the dead will be avenged.
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