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Article: The dead are not the only casualties; North Korea, South Korea and America.(The damage done by naval clash between North and South Korea)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2002
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After yet another naval clash, talks are off, again
AT LEAST four South Korean sailors dead and 19 injured, and a frigate sunk by North Korean gunfire; some 30 North Koreans killed or injured by South Korea's return fire. These are not the only casualties of the clash on June 29th, the worst in three years, between North and South Korean naval vessels in the Yellow Sea, off the peninsula's west coast.
Mounting public anger this week at North Korea's latest military provocation led the South's president, Kim Dae Jung, usually bent on engagement with the North, to demand an apology in unusually strong terms. The defence minister wants a stiffening of the ...