Korea on the brink
The BBC report on North Korea’s latest antics. North Korea has fired artillery shells across its western maritime border, prompting return fire from South Korea, reports say. Dozens of the shells landed on a South Korean island, witnesses say. A television station said some houses on the island were on fire, and Yonhap news agency said that four South Korean soldiers had been hurt. South Korea has issued its highest non-wartime alert in response to the incident, the defence ministry …