South Korea conducts live fire drills after North Korea fires shells near maritime border

South Korea conducted a live fire drill of heavy duty weapons in Yeonpyeong Island on Friday after North Korea fired more than 200 artillery rounds near a disputed maritime border on the same day.

Yeonpyeong is home to just over 2,000 residents and troops stationed there, about 120 km west of Seoul and accessed by ferries that take more than 2-1/2 hours.

The exchange led residents of two remote South Korean islands on the western maritime frontier to evacuate to bomb shelters at the instruction of the South’s military, before it fired live rounds towards the disputed Northern Limit Line border.

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  7. I’ll have to cancel my trip to visit friends and family to South Korea from uk next month! Don’t wanna be bombed near arrival time on the border! 😏☹️😑

  9. All wars are planned by older men
    In council rooms apart,
    Who plan for greater armament
    And map the battle chart.

    Out along the shattered fields
    Where golden dreams are gray,
    How very young their faces are
    Where all the dead men lay.

    Gray haired cast and solemn, in their pride,
    The elders cast their vote
    For this or that, or something else,
    That sounds the warlike note.

    But where their sightless eyes stare out
    Beyond life’s vanished joys,
    I’ve noticed nearly all the dead
    Were hardly more than boys

  14. El problema con los locos en el poder es que a los inteligentes les da temor bajarlos y ponerlos en el sitio que se merecen. El manicomio o las mazmorras .

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