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JusticeColde

Reuters wrote:

North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return of fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.

A witness said residents of the island of Yeonpyeong, off the west coast of the peninsula near a disputed maritime border, had been evacuated.

Yonhap news agency said four South Korean soldiers had been wounded in the shelling, the biggest attack in years.

YTN television quoted a witness as saying 60 to 70 houses were on fire after the shelling and TV footage showed plumes of smoke coming from the island. It said a South Korean fighter jet had been deployed to the west coast after the shelling.

"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN.

"People are frightened to death and shelling continues as we speak," the witness said.

News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down in NDF trading.

The impact was felt internationally, with U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rising and the Japanese yen falling.

South Korea's military confirmed the exchange of firing, without providing more details.

The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is traveling to the region after revelations that the North is moving ahead with uranium enrichment, a possible second path to manufacture material for atomic weapons.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM0YS20101123

CNN wrote:

North Korea on Tuesday fired artillery into the sea near its tense western sea border with South Korea, injuring at least

four South Korean soldiers, the Yonhap news agency reported.

At least 200 rounds of artillery hit an inhabited South Korean island, Yonhap said.

The firing began about 2:30 p.m. local time

The South Korean army raised its alert condition and braced for any possible fire, the report said.

The country's military responded with 80 rounds of artillery and deployed fighter jets to counter the fire, Yonhap said.

Images of plumes of smoke were quickly broadcast on Yonhap television, but it was not immediately clear what the artillery had hit.

The island that was hit has a total of about 1,300 residents, a fisherman who lives on the island told Yonhap.

The South Korean immediately called an emergency meeting of its security ministers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/nkorea.skorea...

At the time of this post: 1 killed, 15 injured

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the ownership of that island, along with a few others, has been under dispute for a long time now. there've been like two or three other major conflicts over it/those territories within the past 11 years.

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supersepiroth wrote:

So far (by what I've heard) South Korea is declaring war

Good luck with that one. Oh wait, did someone say war? Here comes America. (note: I'm not an anti-war activist, but a realist.)

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