NKorea warns SKorea to stop live-fire drills

A South Korean resident passes by a wall damaged by last month's
North Korea's shelling on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010.

North Korea warned South Korea on Friday not firing stage on the island from the frontline in the north bombed last month, saying it would respond more difficult than it was in the past that the attack resulted in the deaths of four South Korea - Seoul, South Korea (AFP).

Warned North Korea against the South similar training prior to November 23 bombing of homes and fears of renewed war on the divided peninsula destroyed.

South Korea said it planned, and live one day cease-fire exercises in the period between Saturday and Tuesday Yeonpyeong, an island is very small, which is home to fishing communities and military bases and is only seven miles (11 km) from the shores of North Korea. Seoul says the timing of the exercises "will depend on weather and other factors, and despite threats from North Korea, and exercises will proceed as planned.

North Korea, which allows the water nearby, and the eight exercises like this invasion of its territory, and responded to the launch of similar exercises by raining artillery shells on Yeonpyeong, killing two Marines and two construction workers.

It was the first attack on North Korea to target civilian areas since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War, and it can cause anger and shock in the south, where television screens and newspapers filled with beautiful images of the islands to escape shelling out, the burning of houses.

A U.S. military official in North Korea in a statement released by the official North Korean Korean Central News Agency South Korea if it continues with training in Yeonpyeong, "can not be predicted and strikes will be made available for self-defense."

"The intensity and extent of the strike will be more dangerous from November 23 (the bombing)," North Korea said in the message that military officials had been sent from South Korea on Friday.

North Korea said the exercises are planned to try to "save the face of the South Korean army, which met with humiliating failure" during a clash last month.

The government faces South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was scathing about him that the army was not ready to attack and responded very slowly and very weak. Was replaced because his defense minister vowed to boost troops and weapons on the islands off the South Korean border, the disputed western sea.

South Korea said that the Ministry of Defence said Friday that North Korea's threats not to stop the planned exercises. Seoul said it was part of "routine in justifies" the maneuvers and warned it was ready to deal with any North Korean attack. Representatives of the United Nations Command, led by the United States, the Korean War truce and supervise ended oversees.

The hard words of the two Koreas and the United States high-level governor visited North Korea on Friday.

The governor said the state of New Mexico Bill Richardson, who an envoy was in the often informal to North Korea, said he wants to visit the compound of North Korea's nuclear large and senior officials during his visit for four days to comply, although the details of his agenda is clear. He said the visit he expected some sort of message from the north to get.

"My goal is to see if we can the tension on the Korean peninsula convenience," said Richardson at the airport in Pyongyang, according to Associated Press Television News.

In Washington, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign PJ Crowley South routine exercises and said they pose no threat.

"North Korea should not this company in South Korea as a provocation," said Crowley told reporters Thursday.

However, the General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fears of a range of possible responses to the opname and release of anti-drilling, if misunderstood, or if North Korea responds negatively.

"You would not want that to happen is for us to lose control of the escalation," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "This is a concern."

Amid escalating tensions and American diplomats has a series of meetings in the region.

In Beijing, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs James Steinberg closed doors with the State of Dai Ping Guo member of the board. Beijing has returned foreign policy chief in the last week of talks in Pyongyang with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. China is under increasing pressure to pay ally of North Korea for its behavior.

Dai said that the urgent need for all parties to prevent escalation of tensions, according to official Chinese news agency Xinhua.

He met with U.S. special envoy to the six-party talks, Kim Sung, on Friday for talks with South Korean nuclear envoy Sung Wi Latin America and the Caribbean. Kim talking to reporters after the meeting.

And believed that Pyongyang was seeking one-on-one talks with the United States before returning to six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, hosted by China. These discussions also South Korea, Japan and Russia.

Crowley said that before discussions can occur, and North Korea should stop provocations, and the reduction of tensions in the region, and relations with South Korea to improve and to take steps to abandon its nuclear program.

In New York UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on November 23 attack on a small island of Yeonpyeong "one of the most serious challenge since the end of the Korean War."

Ban urged, and the former South Korean and North Korean Foreign Minister to exercise restraint and called on both of the two Koreas to the tensions on the Korean Peninsula relief.