Korea border target practice Seoul

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Korea border target practice Seoul

December 10, 2010

North Korea may have fired artillery shells into its water near the disputed

western border with South Korea, an official in Seoul said.

None of the shells crossed the border into South Korean waters and the

government is examining the incident, an official at President Lee Myung-bak's

office said yesterday.

The North fired artillery towards the South's Baengyeong Island as part of what

appears to be regular drills, Yonhap News reported. Tensions have risen on the

Korean peninsula since Pyongyang shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, also

near the western sea border, on November 23, killing four people. The Panmunjom

border has reopened following that attack.

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