AS NOYNOY SAYS PROBABILITY OF WAR UNLIKELY
Pyongyang sounds war drums, stages artillery drill
11/27/2010North Korea staged an artillery drill Friday within earshot of a South Korean island shelled earlier this week and warned that an upcoming US-South Korean naval exercise heightens the risk of war.
The distant sound of the latest shelling sent jittery residents of Yeonpyeong island, targeted in a deadly North Korean bombardment on Tuesday, scrambling for air raid shelters.
South Korea said it appeared to be an exercise and no shells landed on its territory.
The top US commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, visited Yeonpyeong during the brief panic.
He denounced Tuesday’s attack on the border island — which killed two civilians and two Marines, injured 18 and set buildings ablaze — as a violation of the armistice which ended the 1950-53 war..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101127hed1.html
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