N. Korea fires artillery towards S. Korean island, official says (houses destroyed, fire broke out)

Yonhap News ^ | 11/23/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korea fires artillery towards S. Korean island, official says

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Tuesday fired several rounds of artillery towards South Korean waters and an island near the tense west sea border, the South's military said.

The North's artillery shells fell at 2:34 p.m. in the South's waters off the island of Yeonpyeong, some of them landing directly on the island, said Col. Lee Bung-woo, spokesman at the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The South's military responded with its artillery firing.

[Dengar01]

4. Napolitano, Holder and other clowns will be told to STFU on this. Hillary! will be placed in charge, and she'll have enough brains to listen to Gates (if that doesn't happen, watch for some interesting things come out about the Obamas).

GATES? He is a joke I'd rather have Hillary run the Dept of Defense than Gates. All he seems to care about is Don't ask, don't tell.

Get Petraeus or another real General. Gates makes me sick.

[caww]

But would Bo give them that leeway? I doubt it.

[TigerLikesRooster]

More Photos of Damage in Yonpyongdo

[Uncle Ike]

Thanks for the pics, TLR...

Any updates on the SK internal political situation?? Is the Lee Government still looking as shaky as it did earlier today??

[TigerLikesRooster]

Right. He is not talking at the moment, but the whole press(including conservative daily) turned on him for embarrassing flip flops regarding his comments on how to respond.

Borrowing an expression a messenger duck used in Kungfu Panda,
"He is so very very dead politically."

Nobody in SK would take him seriously from now on.

[Uncle Ike]

” Nobody in SK would take him seriously from now on. “

Well, isn’t that just special!!

Three ‘heads of state’ involved in this crisis, and nobody takes *any* of ‘em seriously....

This thing may spiral out of control just due to pure political ineptitude on *everybody’s* part - and not an adult in sight to provide any guidance.... (Or send ‘em to their rooms - whatever....)

[grey_whiskers]

When does Teh One have to return his affirmative-action Nobel Peace Prize?

[little jeremiah]

Thank you very much for all your reportage.

It’s hard to believe that no civilians were killed, although I hope that is the case.

[grey_whiskers]

This thing may spiral out of control just due to pure political ineptitude on *everybody’s* part - and not an adult in sight to provide any guidance.... (Or send ‘em to their rooms - whatever....)

Sounds like how World War I got started.

See my post #507.

NO Cheers, unfortunately.

[grey_whiskers]

D@mn, that was good.

Consider yourself highly commended, sir.

[TigerLikesRooster]

There is a report of some civilians “unaccounted for.” It is such a chaos that nobody can keep track of individuals’ movement during the shelling.
There will be head counting later and search for missing persons if necessary.

[Uncle Ike]

” Sounds like how World War I got started. “

YEah - that thought has crossed my mind, too — the geopolitical and tactical situations aren’t analagous, but the venality and incompetence of the ‘main players’ sure strikes a familiar chord, doesn’t it??

[little jeremiah]

Thank you. I haven’t read (or don’t remember, I was reading the threads last night as the topic started on FR) what time it was in SK when this happened.

[TigerLikesRooster]

2:43 pm, Nov. 23

[Chong]

"Right. He is not talking at the moment, but the whole press(including conservative daily) turned on him for embarrassing flip flops regarding his comments on how to respond.

Will you please provide us with more details with links? I am curious about the general mood of the people over there and how Lee is perceived in reality and would like to read about it.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Lower left:

• top: N. Korea's artillery deployed
• bottom: S. Korea's artillery which returned fire

Lower right:

• trajectories of N. Korean shells

[TigerLikesRooster]

Lawmaker Hong Sa-duk denounce Presidential aides, calling them “Kae-ja-shik.” Reflects general sentiment

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/24/2010112400464.html

Also browse through comments left by readers at the end of this article:

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/24/2010112400133.html

[little jeremiah]

Thank you.

[SevenofNine]

PING A ROO

HEY TIGER guess who I saw in video tape saying that North Korea going kick south Korea a*** if they smack them around

Our fav News gal Pyongang Patty she is backkkkkkkk

Delusional as ever

Yeah I watch little a bit of BBC world news this evening

[TigerLikesRooster]

Summary of Donga Ilbo’s latest article:

http://news.donga.com/Politics/3/00/20101124/32825566/1

N. Korea employed Time-on-Target firing of artillery

Targeted S. Korea's K-9 self-propelled artillery unit.

First shell hit a barrack. Unit office, warehouse, and training ground were simultaneously hit.