North Korea is accusing the South Korean military of firing on North Korean troops guarding the tense land border that separates the two countries.
| Because that's so much worse than sending out a mini-sub to sink a South Korean naval vessel. No doubt this accusation resulted in bitter laughter south of the border. |
North Korea's state-run news agency says South Korean forces committed what it calls a "grave armed provocation" Sunday. It says they fired toward a North Korean police post in the eastern part of the demilitarized zone. South Korea's military says no such incident took place.
Pyongyang regularly accuses Seoul of raising tensions between the two states, which remain technically at war since a 1953 truce that ended the Korean War. |