North, South Korea Soldiers Exchange Fire (breaking!!!)

Yahoo! News ^ | July 16, 2003 | AP

[El Conservador]

SEOUL, South Korea - South and North Korean soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their border on Thursday, but the South said it suffered no casualties in the shootout.

It was not immediately known whether any North Korean troops were injured or killed in the firefight in the Demilitarized Zone.

North Korean soldiers fired four rounds at 6:10 a.m., and South Korean soldiers fired 17 rounds in response one minute later, said Maj. Lee of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The incident happened near the South Korean town of Yonchon, said Lee, who did not give his first name.

Over the decades, violence has periodically broken out at the DMZ, though such incidents have tapered off in recent years. The shooting Thursday comes amid heightened tension over North Korea (news - web sites)'s suspected development of nuclear weapons.

[El Conservador]

First bang, then boom...

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[RightWhale]

One of these times . . .

[isthisnickcool]

Dang North Korean! I'll handle em'.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Korea

[The Radical Capitalist]

Nip it! Nip it in the bud! Nip it, nip it, nip it!

[RWR8189]

Its time to finish where we left off!

[RepublicanArmy]

Anyone think Bush has the "Big Guns" locked & loaded in North Korea's general direction?

[Uncle George]

Time to sell youe Hundai's.

[Husker24]

I dont think we have forces available to take on North Korea at the moment.

[RepublicanArmy]

Who's talking about forces??? I said "Big Guns"!!!!!!

[RWR8189]

^We should bring back the draft and harden this generation of young men that have been softened by the PC 90's.

[Husker24]

Well, I agree, we could level it in 20 minutes if we really wanted to, but we couldnt occupy it right now.

[RepublicanArmy]

I agree with you there we don't have the forces available right now to go in with troops.

[NeoCaveman]

I agree with you there we don't have the forces available right now to go in with troops.

We are spread thin. If our planes took out the nuke plants, could the South Koreans, and others handle the rest?

[Husker24]

I really think that this is the main reason that most of Western Europe wont send in troops to help with the Iraq occupation, they know that we are angling on taking on North Korea as soon as enough forces are freed from Iraq.

[SLB]

Its time to finish where we left off!

And how are we to do this? With the airpower touted by Rummy? We sure don't have the ground troops to send there with the exception of the special ops that we are now recruiting straight in rather than growing up through the ranks like they used to. Success in a two front war is a pipe dream thought up by all the war gamers who have been in a war, so think it is a game. I fear we will be given a bloody nose on this one. We will recover, but it will not be pretty. Remember what happened in the first 2/3 of the first Korean war!

[RWR8189]

If the draft is reinstated in no more than a years time, we wont have to worry about troops being spread thin.

[blam]

"I agree with you there we don't have the forces available right now to go in with troops."

Well, South Korea does. Just park two carriers on each side and run about 4,000 sorties a day across the North.

[Husker24]

I dont think the goverment will never reintroduce the draft because they know that there would be massive numbers of people that just wont go and it would tear this country apart. Anyway I think its better to have a military that actually wants to be there.