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U.S. and South Korea Begin Joint Naval Exercises
The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including last week’s deadly artillery attack on a island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, China stepped up its diplomatic efforts to cool tempers in the region, with a senior envoy holding a meeting on Sunday morning with South Korea’s president and Beijing announcing that it had invited a senior North Korean official for talks this week. North Korean artillery was heard Sunday on the island, though no shells landed there and South Korea considered it just a drill, according to a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The North Koreans also shot off artillery on Friday, after a visit by an American general to the island, called Yeonpyeong. The an... Nov 27, 2010
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After Attack, Korean Island Is a Ghost of Its Former Self
Three days after North Korean artillery rained down on this island in the Yellow Sea west of the two Koreas, nothing was even remotely back to normal. Only about 30 of the island's approximately 1,400 residents were home Friday. Ash and the smell of charred wood hung in the air. Dogs, with their owners gone, roamed everywhere, some of them wounded. Yeonpyeong was a ghost island with all the signs of being abandoned by people in a hurry: fishing nets left on the sides of roads to dry and shopping marts fully stocked but locked tight. Most of its residents were staying on the Korean mainland with friends and relatives. Basic services worked, but cleanup work had barely begun. Broken glass littered most sidewalks and open valves spilled water in some alleys. A bar that had been decorated with empty bottles of Korean rice liquor, called ... Nov 28, 2010