Start South Korea of artillery tests

SEOUL - South Korea's military said Monday it test fire artillery at 29 locations would this week, including one of the Islands in the sea border was Yellow Sea where North Korea upset by such tests two weeks ago.

South Korea's new Defense Minister visited the DMZ, while North Korea warns the terrible consequences of the South 'frantic provocation' to continue. Video courtesy of Reuters. Reuters South Korea Marines look from a truck on the Yeonpyeong island near the Western sea border between the two Koreas December 6, 2010.

A detailed timeline of the recent skirmishes between North and South Korea.

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Some local media reported early Monday that the tests had already started, but a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of staff said disclose details about the test would not. Last week, announced in an apparent slip, the military an exact time for a new fire test on the island which was attacked by North Korea on November 23. It moved the announcement of the new test for two hours.

Sunday North Korea's State-run media manages its barrage of criticism of South Korea, Seoul said "near draw a lesson from the deserved punishment" from the North attack on the South's Yeonpyeong Iceland nearly two weeks ago.

The recent statement issued by Korea Central News Agency, said South Korea "more hectic in military provocations and war moving always is." The statement also showed that Pyongyang closely observed Kim Kwan Jin on the Friday confirmation hearing of South Korea's new Defense Minister.

Mr Kim said South Korea makes fresh attacks from North Korea with air, to respond to something it would not, while the November 23 attacking Yeonpyeong, an island in the Yellow Sea a few miles from the North Korean Coast. Four South Koreans - two civilians and two Marines-died in the attack. South Korea has added new weapons, including multiple rocket launchers on the island since the attack.

North Korea has said such tests on November 23, the it on the island fire challenged. His statement uses vague claim that not clear whether it relates water North of the island, recognises the waters around the island belong to North Korea, and it is like South Korea as the maritime border, or in the South.

Extreme rhetoric is common in statements from Pyongyang, but Sunday's announcement also claims that South Korea plans to use "Strike strategic goals" by North Korea, including Pyongyang contested borders deep into the territory with the area. At any time, a South Korean official suggested that such a move.

Is U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton their Korean and Japanese counterparts in Washington on Monday to discuss the North Korean attack and plotting a diplomatic course host.

A question that you face is whether the three countries continue to participate in the so-called six parties process also China and Russia and was used as a forum to discuss North Korea denuclearization. The United States proposed the Forum in 2003, but has allowed to sponsor China and to convene the meetings.

China has a neutral stance on the North Korean attack taken prompt criticism both in and out of the country. High-level Chinese diplomats traveled to curb Pyongyang last week under pressure from other countries in North Korea.

China, said chief political and economic benefactor, despite North Korea are the limits of its capacity to influence dictator Kim Jong Il and his regime.

Write toEvan Ramstad at evan.ramstad@wsj.com

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