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Actually, no, it looks like The Guardian is just schizoid on this subject. Joel Send a noteboard - 23/11/2010 08:16:45 PM
The article yours says was filed at 1620 is subtitled, "Two killed after Pyongyang fires on Yeonpyeong island in first attack on South Korean land since 1953 war". Did you catch that? According to the articles author, this is the first North Korean attack on South Korean land since the cease fire in 1953.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/23/north-korea-condemned-south-korea

Then THIS Guardian article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/23/timeline-north-korea-south-korea

lists a timeline of the conflict since the end of the war; the first thing it reveals is that the war hasn't actually ended, and the next three entries are North Korean attempts to assassinate the South Korean President (though I concede one of them occurred in Burma, last I check Seoul was still in South Korea).

"27 July 1953
The war ends when North and South Korea sign a truce – but there is no formal peace treaty, meaning the two countries remain technically at war. The Korean war cost 2 million lives.

January 1968
North Korean commandos launch a failed assassination attempt on the then president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

15 August 1974
There is another assassination attempt on Park Chung-hee, by a North Korean agent in Seoul. Park survives, but the first lady is killed".

I wish people didn't try so hard to make deliberate acts of war into mere misunderstandings.
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North Korea attacks South Korea and no one mentions it? - 23/11/2010 10:56:03 AM 1296 Views
"Oh God, Oh God, we are all going to die?" - 23/11/2010 11:09:30 AM 1086 Views
Yup, but the day Beijing decides they're better off not intervening the Appeasers look very dumb. - 23/11/2010 11:23:35 AM 932 Views
The appeasers look very dumb at this point regardless. - 23/11/2010 04:11:41 PM 852 Views
yes, because we want to fight *ANOTHER* proxy war with china *NM* - 23/11/2010 04:29:18 PM 484 Views
"Wanting" has nothing to do with it. There are few alternatives. - 23/11/2010 04:50:02 PM 988 Views
Honestly, it COULD go either way. - 23/11/2010 05:14:18 PM 1130 Views
China's relations with North Korea are also worsening, though. - 25/11/2010 05:48:01 PM 1264 Views
What Tom said. - 23/11/2010 05:15:31 PM 936 Views
I figured someone else would post it *NM* - 23/11/2010 11:16:44 AM 424 Views
You know I like to sleep in, remember? - 23/11/2010 11:20:33 AM 928 Views
Agreed - 23/11/2010 02:07:30 PM 1036 Views
I think most Americans are asleep until the sun rises here - 23/11/2010 11:32:28 AM 942 Views
That is 'cause everyone else is hiding out in their nuclear bunkers - 23/11/2010 11:40:33 AM 927 Views
Re: That is 'cause everyone else is hiding out in their nuclear bunkers - 23/11/2010 11:46:03 AM 978 Views
Re: That is 'cause everyone else is hiding out in their nuclear bunkers - 23/11/2010 11:57:51 AM 859 Views
The really sad part is, that along with everything else worthwhile in the British Empire... - 25/11/2010 09:49:00 AM 1106 Views
you know what they say - 25/11/2010 10:34:30 AM 955 Views
Never send an Englishman to do a man's work? - 25/11/2010 09:06:22 PM 958 Views
I actually had no clue. - 23/11/2010 01:14:20 PM 936 Views
Re: I actually had no clue. - 23/11/2010 01:15:10 PM 800 Views
Re: I actually had no clue. - 23/11/2010 04:32:17 PM 912 Views
Re: I actually had no clue. - 23/11/2010 04:36:59 PM 880 Views
Honestly, - 23/11/2010 02:36:13 PM 847 Views
you know the world doesn't exist until america wakes up in the morning, right? *NM* - 23/11/2010 04:27:27 PM 452 Views
I had an inkling. *NM* - 23/11/2010 04:37:37 PM 488 Views
OK, have had time to read it, and someone needs to fact check a very important part of that article. - 23/11/2010 04:52:02 PM 1028 Views
Fact checking: - 23/11/2010 08:38:57 PM 930 Views
The term "truce" used in a different Guardian article seems better. - 23/11/2010 09:20:19 PM 861 Views
my two bits - 23/11/2010 10:51:51 PM 988 Views
I'm glad your ex wasn't there in 1970 then. - 24/11/2010 01:10:02 AM 965 Views
Well - 23/11/2010 05:24:02 PM 966 Views
Actually, no, it looks like The Guardian is just schizoid on this subject. - 23/11/2010 08:16:45 PM 1145 Views
There's not going to be any all-out conflict - 24/11/2010 12:56:44 AM 1090 Views
They're getting aid from South Korea now, and killing them anyway. - 24/11/2010 01:20:33 AM 1039 Views
No kidding, that's been going on for quite some time. - 24/11/2010 02:49:50 AM 911 Views
That is the crux of it, I suppose. - 24/11/2010 03:02:40 PM 994 Views
~shrugs~ SK has lived with this a long time, and will continue to do so. - 24/11/2010 10:26:44 PM 969 Views
Parts of it have; some South Koreans stopped living with it a few days ago. - 25/11/2010 01:48:02 PM 1569 Views
They won't be the last. - 02/12/2010 12:55:20 AM 1141 Views
Re: North Korea attacks South Korea and no one mentions it? - 24/11/2010 01:50:11 AM 876 Views

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