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South Korea sinks torpedo boat in Yellow Sea battle
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A TENSE stand-off in the Yellow Sea exploded yesterday morning
when the South Korean navy sank a North Korean torpedo boat and
damaged several other vessels from the famine-struck Communist
nation.
The high-seas gun battle lasted only 10 minutes but shattered a
fragile peace in the Yellow Sea, which has not seen a full-blown
naval confrontation since the 1950-53 Korean War. As China, Japan
and the United States called for calm, South Korea put its military
on highest alert. North Korea said the neighbours were on the brink
of war.
According to South Korea's Defence Ministry, four North Korean ...
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