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North Korea Accuses South Korean Troops of Firing Toward its Border

   VOA News 04 April 2010

   North  Korea  is accusing the South Korean military of firing on North
   Korean  troops  guarding  the tense land border that separates the two
   countries.
   North Korea's state-run news agency says South Korean forces committed
   what  it  calls a "grave armed provocation" Sunday. It says they fired
   toward  a  North  Korean  police  post  in  the  eastern  part  of the
   demilitarized  zone. South Korea's military says no such incident took
   place.
   Pyongyang  regularly accuses Seoul of raising tensions between the two
   states,  which remain technically at war since a 1953 truce that ended
   the Korean War.
   South Korea also is investigating whether North Korea played a role in
   the  mysterious  sinking of a South Korean warship near their disputed
   western  sea  border on March 26. The incident left 45 sailors missing
   and feared dead. Pyongyang has remained silent about the sinking.
   South  Korea's military began salvage operations on the warship Sunday
   after  calling  off  rescue efforts at the request of relatives of the