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    November 29, 2011

South Korea Holds Live-Fire Drills in Yellow Sea

   VOA News

   South Korean warships have carried out live-fire drills in the Yellow
   Sea, less than a week after holding a large-scale exercise to mark the
   anniversary of a North Korean attack.
   South Korean naval officials say the live-fire drills involved
   destroyers, frigates, patrol boats and high-speed boats.
   Last week's show of force came on the one-year anniversary of the
   North's shelling of Yeonpyeong island, which killed four people.
   It was the first North Korean shelling of a civilian-populated South
   Korean territory since the Korean War in the 1950s.
   South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik promised last week a tough
   response to any further attacks.
   Pyongyang blames the South for the shelling, saying it was in response
   to a "provocative" South Korean military drill on the island.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP.

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