S.Korea vows air strikes if North attacks again

SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea will hit back with air strikes at the North and “punish the attacker thoroughly” should the regime launch another assault, the defence minister-designate warned Friday. The tough words came as the largest ever US-Japan war games kicked off in waters off the tense Korean peninsula, and as the UN's atomic watchdog voiced “great concern” about the North's nuclear ambitions. The manoeuvres in the East China Sea dwarf US-South Korean exercises this week in the Yellow Sea. These were designed as a show of force to Pyongyang after its regime launched a deadly artillery strike against South Korea. In Seoul the nominated defence minister Kim…

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S.Korea vows air strikes if North attacks again

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