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North and South Korea traded verbal volleys Thursday, a day after an
artillery exchange in waters near their Yellow Sea border caused tensions to
spike.North Korea, in a statement released on its official news agency, flatly
denied South Korean charges that it fired off a handful of artillery shells,
sparking Wednesday's exchange. It said the South must have been confused by
blasting at a construction site near the border.
South Korean officials responded there is no doubt that the North fired the
shots, and dismissed its claims as typical of a country that routinely denies
its provocations. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to reporters in
Seoul on Thursday, said the artillery exchange left him concerned and regretful.
He said the exchange shows the situation on the Korean peninsula remains
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发表于 2016-7-10 17:38:46