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North, South Korea Soldiers Exchange Fire (breaking!!!)
Yahoo! News ^
| July 16, 2003
| AP
Posted on 07/16/2003 5:49:51 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: korea; nk; northkorea; notbreaking; searchbeforeposting; sk; southkorea
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First bang, then boom...
To: All
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posted on
07/16/2003 5:51:00 PM PDT
by
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(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: El Conservador
One of these times . . .
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posted on
07/16/2003 5:51:30 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: El Conservador
Dang North Korean! I'll handle em'.
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posted on
07/16/2003 5:54:02 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Liberals - Their neural synapses are corroded.)
To: El Conservador
To: isthisnickcool
Nip it! Nip it in the bud! Nip it, nip it, nip it!
To: The Radical Capitalist
Its time to finish where we left off!
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posted on
07/16/2003 5:57:11 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: El Conservador
Anyone think Bush has the "Big Guns" locked & loaded in North Korea's general direction?
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:00:20 PM PDT
by
RepublicanArmy
(God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
To: El Conservador
Time to sell youe Hundai's.
To: RepublicanArmy
I dont think we have forces available to take on North Korea at the moment.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:02:18 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: Husker24
Who's talking about forces??? I said "Big Guns"!!!!!!
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:03:33 PM PDT
by
RepublicanArmy
(God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
To: Husker24
^We should bring back the draft and harden this generation of young men that have been softened by the PC 90's.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:04:28 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: RepublicanArmy
Well, I agree, we could level it in 20 minutes if we really wanted to, but we couldnt occupy it right now.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:06:18 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: Husker24
I agree with you there we don't have the forces available right now to go in with troops.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:07:28 PM PDT
by
RepublicanArmy
(God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
To: RepublicanArmy
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?
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:08:57 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
("I don't need the Bush tax cut. I never worked a f****** day in my life. Patrick Kennedy D-RI)
To: RepublicanArmy
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.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:09:44 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: RWR8189; Fred Mertz; Squantos; sauropod; Valin; Matthew James; harpseal; Travis McGee
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!
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:10:07 PM PDT
by
SLB
To: dubyaismypresident
If the draft is reinstated in no more than a years time, we wont have to worry about troops being spread thin.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:10:32 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: RepublicanArmy; Husker24
"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.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:13:21 PM PDT
by
blam
To: RWR8189
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.
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posted on
07/16/2003 6:14:15 PM PDT
by
Husker24
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