Word on the streets of the global village is that North Korea woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, and decided to engage in a spot of artillery battery with an indefensible South Korean island on the disputed Western marine border of both nations. The island, which is home to between 1200 and 1400 people has plumes of smoke rising from it’s residential areas. Unconfirmed reports are that the island has suffered no fatalities as yet, but four [update: 16] South Korean soldiers are both injured and decidedly pissed off. One fatality has been recorded, and residential houses have been razed to the ground.
South Korea has responded by scrambling jets, and – no doubt – getting uncle Barrack on the phone.
May I remind you, North Korea has nuclear weapons, and they’ve probably never read any Tom Clancy novels – they don’t know how bad that stuff can get.
Get yer’ popcorn!
[Sources: Telegraph, AFP, Business Weekly]
