US, South Korea begin naval manoeuvres in tense region
Nov 28 (DPA) The US and South Korea Sunday began major naval manoeuvres in the Yellow Sea, five days after North Korea's attack on a South Korean island escalated tensions in the region.
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N Korea 'readies missiles', China steps in to ensure peace
Reuters: North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, as the United States and South Korea began military exercises and C
Koreas: Islanders take refuge as US-SKorea begin war games
Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea: The United States and South Korea staged a potent show of naval strength on Sunday as residents of a border island bombarded last week by North Korea scurried for shelt
North: Region on brink of war
Seoul, Nov. 26: North Korea, after its artillery attack on the South this week, warned on Friday that plans for a US-South Korean naval exercise bring the peninsula “closer to the brink of war”.
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US, S.Korea plan naval show of force off tense peninsula
The US and South Korean naval forces plan to stage four days of war games from Sunday off the tense Korean peninsula, days after the North launched a deadly artillery strike against the South.
S.Korea lays to rest marines killed in N.Korea attack
South Korea on Saturday laid to rest two marines killed in North Korea's artillery strikes, on the eve of massive naval war games with the United States that have angered Pyongyang and its ally Beijin
China warns US-Korea on ‘provocative acts’
Nov. 25: North Korea's key ally China said on Thursday it opposed US-South Korea war games to be staged after Pyongyang's deadly artillery barrage, as Premier Wen Jiabao warned against “provocative” a
'Koreas are on brink of war'
YEONPYEONG ISLAND: North Korea warned on Friday that planned U.S.-South Korean military drills are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war as a US military commander toured the wreckage of an island
Koreas tension: Fresh explosions heard from border site
Seoul: North Korea appears to have staged an artillery firing exercise in the Yellow Sea on Friday, a Seoul defence ministry spokesman said, three days after the North's deadly shelling hit a South Ko
N.Korea stages artillery drill, warns of threat of war
North Korea staged an artillery firing drill on Friday near the South Korean border and warned that planned US-South Korean naval exercises at the weekend would bring the peninsula closer to war.