North and South Korea Exchange Artillery Fire
November 23rd, 2010Via: MSNBC:
Fires were burning out of control Tuesday after a South Korean island was hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea.
YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong island. Most of the shells landed on a South Korean military base there.
South Korea returned fire and scrambled F-16 fighter jets, military officials said. At least one South Korean marine was killed and 13 wounded, the military said.
However, North Korea’s state-run KCNA news service said that South Korea fired first, Reuters reported.
The clash came amid South Korean military drills in the area. North Korea’s military had sent a message to South Korea’s armed forces early Tuesday to demand that the drills stop, but the South continued them, according to an official at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
During the drills, South Korean marines on the island shot artillery toward southern waters, away from North Korea, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of military rules.
The skirmish also follows high tension over North Korea’s claim that it has a new uranium enrichment facility and just over a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il unveiled his youngest son Kim Jong Un as his heir apparent.
YTN television said up to 70 houses were on fire on Yeonpyeong, about 75 miles west of the capital Seoul. The station broadcast pictures of thick columns of black smoke rising from the island. Screams and chaotic shouts could be heard on the video. YTN said between 1,200 and 1,300 people live on the island.
Island residents were escaping to about 20 shelters in the island and sporadic shelling was continuing, officials said.
NK has 175mm artillery which makes large explosions…unlike in the videos released.
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675023980_M107self-propelled-gun_hydraulic-powers-operated_recoil-spade_automatic-loader
A false flag is plausible in light of the recent faked torpedo attack.
more info here:
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-another-gulf-of-tonkin-incident/
and here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/world/la-fg-korea-torpedo-20100724