So South Korea fired first

[malaise]

Why am I not surprised?

[bluerum]

1. Source?

[malaise]

4. Olbermann

and his guest.

[Pavulon]

8. So south korea hit north korean ary positions first?

I hope this takes off, you are aware radar telemetry can track artillery exchanges. This aint' mihop, it shows up on tape.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. First I heard of that.

Link?

[stevedeshazer]

3. What?

[Pavulon]

5. Link from non pravda commondreams source please(nt)

[malaise]

7. Apparently South Korea was on some training exercise

and fired and the North Koreans retaliated.

[Pavulon]

9. So they killed people in response to a training excersice, got it

you know how many soviet training exercises there were in the cold war?

[Posteritatis]

20. One, it was an exercise. Two, they fired south.

Retaliation, my ass.

[Liquorice]

6. I would be VERY surprised if that were true. nt

[peacebird]

10. NPR said SK was holding war games and NK called that provocation

I did not see Olbermann tonight. Did his guest say SK actually fired first?

[malaise]

13. KO said that South Korea fired first

His guest spoke about the exercises (war games).

[Pavulon]

14. Link, KO is not news, he is an showbiz guy, like lenno. Now the bbc, afp, ap, cbc, thompson reuters

cna (china's network) are news. I would like to see a link supporting this statement.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Two things

1.- Scheduled exercises firing towards the West.

2.- They informed N. Korea before they were to start...

Source BBC on NPR today.

[apocalypsehow]

12. Whether they "fired first" or not, I'd like to know what you mean by that "Why am I not surprised?"

crack? What are you trying to imply with that statement?

[notesdev]

15. They were doing wargames

apparently NK wanted to play, too

[Duckhunter935]

16. Fired out to sea

They did not fire at the north. They also informed the north or the exercise.

[Barack_America]

18. Apparently NK has claimed that bit of sea for themselves...

...and that's why they're claiming SK fired at them first.

[Dr.Phool]

17. Keith had a good quote at the beginning.

Kim Jong-Il and his son, Seriously Il.

[EmilyKent]

19. How to provoke a hair-trigger paranoid nation

S.Korea says it test-fired in area before N.Korea firing

SEOUL | Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:27am EST

Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea said it was conducting regular military drills off the west coast before North Korea started firing dozens of shells, but that its firing exercises did not aim to the North.

"We were conducting usual military drills and our test shots were aimed toward the west, not the north," a South Korean military official said.

North Korea said on Tuesday that Seoul had initiated firing of shells, prompting it to take an instant military action.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE6AM05P20101123