South Korea fires shells in retaliation of suspected N.K. artillery attack

[davidpdx]

Source: Korean Herald

South Korea on Thursday fired dozens of shells toward North Korea in response to the North's apparent artillery attack on the South’s propaganda loudspeakers in the western border, the Defense Ministry said.

The exchanges further raised military tensions between the two Koreas which have flared in the wake of the North’s Aug. 4 land mine attack.

“At around 3:52 p.m., we detected what is presumed to be a trajectory of North Korea’s rocket. We are still analyzing it and there is no damage to our loudspeakers,” Seoul’s Defense Ministry said in a press release.

Read more: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150820001024

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Still no update from CNN, only the breaking news banner.

Yonhap, and The Korean Herald articles are still pretty vague.

[MADem]

1. SKY NEWS has it.

http://news.sky.com/story/1538725/north-and-south-korea-trade-artillery-fire


North And South Korea 'Trade Artillery Fire'
Reports say Pyongyang fired a shell at a South Korean border town, which prompted Seoul to respond with artillery fire.

North Korea has fired a shell across the border into South Korea, prompting Seoul to respond with artillery fire, acccording to reports.

The North is believed to have been aiming at a loudspeaker that has been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts recently, South Korean media said.

In response, South Korea fired tens of 155mm artillery rounds at the location where the shell came from, the country's defence ministry said.

KBS News, which is state-run, quoted a South Korean military official as saying that North Korea opened fire at around 4pm local time (7pm GMT) on the western front.

Yonhap said the shots did not cause any apparent damage and that there has been no response from Pyongyang to the artillery fire.

Soyth Korea's defence ministry said surveillance equipment detected the trajectories of suspected rockets and that it is investigating the incident.....

[davidpdx]

2. Yeah, the Korean Herald as well.

CNN is being a little slow, but it sounds like this just happened.

[Elmergantry]

3. Huh?

"The North is believed to have been aiming at a loudspeaker that has been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts recently, South Korean media said."

So the North, based in Pyongyang, is blaring anti-North broadcasts?

So how did this pass the editor?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. I think the North was aiming at a loudspeaker in the South.

The South is the source of anti-North noise.

Probably a very loud speaker, very annoying.

[davidpdx]

8. The Korean Herald's English news service is notoriously bad

[MADem]

11. He's quoting the SKY piece, but it makes absolute sense.

If you start at the top and read down, there's no question as to where the North was aiming, or at what.

[davidpdx]

12. Ah, I mistook what he was talking about

I just assumed it was the Korean Herald because their writing is so crappy. That's one reason I don't buy the paper here anymore. Very poor quality writing.

[MADem]

10. Makes sense to me.

The North

was aiming at a loudspeaker (over the line in the south)

that has been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts.


If you read the article contextually and in full, there's no question as to what happened.

[Lurks Often]

5. Looks like South Korea has run out of patience with North Korea

North Korea fired 1 artillery shell and got 20+ in return. Almost certainly killed the entire North Korean gun crew and destroyed the gun or guns in the immediate area.

Let's hope that this serves as a wake up call to North Korea that they are seriously out classed by the South Korean military.

[madville]

6. The North probably had 10 fail before they found one that still worked

30-40 year old artillery shells probably aren't too reliable.

[OnlinePoker]

7. Sounds like an Israeli tactic

You shoot one rocket at us, we will bomb a neighbourhood into the stone age.

[davidpdx]

9. Yes they have

Given they have sunk a Korean Navy ship, shelled an island, and most recently planted land mines along the trail where the South Korea military patrol.