LET'S GET IT ON :

Four S.Koreans Killed, 18 Hurt in Clash with North (Paul Eckert, 6/29/02, Reuters)

Four South Korean sailors were killed and 18 wounded in a clash with North Korean patrol boats on Saturday in waters off the west coast of the divided peninsula, South Korea said.

The defense ministry said one South Korean vessel was sunk in the clash in the Yellow Sea at a point 170 km (105 miles) west of Inchon International Airport, through which tens of thousands of World Cup soccer visitors entered the country this month.

"This provocative behavior by North Korea is a blatant armistice violation for which North Korea bears full responsibility," South Korean Lieutenant General Lee Sang-hee told a news conference at the defense ministry in Seoul.

We've owed them one for fifty years. Time to take out this pole of the axis of evil. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 29, 2002 5:31 AM