North Korea lobbed artillery shells at a South Korean island near their border, killing two soldiers and setting houses ablaze in the worst attack on its neighbor in at least eight months.

South Korea returned fire with 80 shells and scrambled fighter jets as President Lee Myung Bak vowed to respond “sternly.” Local television channel YTN showed smoke billowing from Yeonpyeong island off South Korea’s northwest coast and said residents took cover in bomb shelters. Stocks and U.S. futures dropped while the dollar and Swiss franc strengthened.

Tensions with Kim Jong Il’s regime have risen in the past year after the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan in March killed 46 sailors. U.S. President Barack Obama this week dispatched envoy Stephen Bosworth to Asia after reports by a U.S. scientist that North Korea had revealed a “stunning” uranium- enrichment plant.

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The electrical power is for the elite, look at the capital.


...if you cant figure it out, the capital is that one bright spot.

I really hate how they reinforce their military power and yet they ignore the needs of commoners who are the backbones of their country.

it's a shame that communism promotes equality yet the leaders who supposed to lead this idea are the ones who abuse their people.

TsuKasa ('') said, November 23, 2010, 03:30:12 pm

I really hate how they reinforce their military power and yet they ignore the needs of commoners who are the backbones of their country.

And the U.S. is different because...?