UN council meets as N. Korea said to raise alert
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session on Sunday to try to cool tensions on the Korean peninsula as North Korea’s military was reported to have raised an alert for artillery units along its west coast. Protesters shout slogans during an anti-war and anti-government rally in Seoul December 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Truth Leem) Pyongyang’s move, the latest in a growing crisis between the two Koreas, came ahead of a planned live-fire drill by the South, Yonhap news agency said, quoting a government source. Bad weather had so far delayed the South’s planned firing drill at a disputed border that has enraged Pyongyang. The standoff between the two countries has…
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