US, SKorea militaries gird for NKorean provocation (AP)

May 28th, 2009 by admin

US, SKorea militaries gird for NKorean provocation
(AP)

A South Korean Marine stands guard in alert on Yeonpyong Island, western South Korea, Thursday, May 28, 2009. South Korean and U.S. troops raised their alert Thursday to the highest level since 2006 after North Korea renounced its peace treaty with the allied forces and threatened to strike any ships trying to intercept its vessels. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Ahn Jung-won)AP – The U.S. and South Korea put their military forces on high alert Thursday after North Korea renounced the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas since 1953. The North also accused the U.S. of preparing to attack the isolated communist country in the wake of its second nuclear bomb test, and warned it would retaliate to any hostility with “merciless” and dangerous ferocity.

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