North Korea Says South Korea Fired First

Well, well.

South Korea was conducting the military exercise in the area when the shelling started. Obama has just returned from Asia; Korea was the second to last stop, for G20. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Asia for a very long time; she left the US before the November election.

(What were they doing, particularly Hillary Clinton?)

The South Korean president Lee Myung-bak is in need of a boost to his popularity which has been flagging.

(BTW, Lee was born in Japan of Korean parents. Looking at his picture, he looks more North Korean than South Korean...)

From Reuters:

Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea said it was conducting regular military drills off the west coast before North Korea started firing dozens of shells, but that its firing exercises did not aim to the North.

"We were conducting usual military drills and our test shots were aimed toward the west, not the north," a South Korean military official said.

North Korea said on Tuesday that Seoul had initiated firing of shells, prompting it to take an instant military action.

Are we about to see a proxy war on Korean Peninsula again? North Korea/China vs South Korea/US?

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