Pictures Of North Korea Military Strikes On South Korea
See Map of conflict zone here.
A spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korean shells had started falling in the waters off the island of Yeonpyeong at 1434 local time (0534 GMT).
At least 50 landed directly on the island, most of them hitting a South Korean military base there. Sixteen South Korean marines and three civilians were injured.
A resident on the island told the AFP news agency that dozens of houses had been damaged by the barrage. Television pictures showed plumes of smoke rising above the island.
“Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating,” a witness on the island told YTN television station. “People are frightened to death.”
Local government spokesman Yoon Kwan-seok said the shelling lasted for about an hour and then stopped abruptly.
“All of the island’s 1,600-odd residents were evacuated to shelters,” he said.
No need to risk American lives as of yet. Privately threatening China with the withdrawal of US companies which mostly paid for China’s economic boom will scare them into forcing North Korea to back down.
I thought the US congress (Federal House of Representatives and House of Senate) had to vote by 2/3rds majority in order to be at war?