North Korea just fired around 50 missiles at Yun Pyung Do

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It happened around 40 minutes ago... The place is on fire right now and they're not sure about casualties yet.
 
South Korea is returning fire.  
 
Articles: 
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM0YS20101123      
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11818005  
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/nkorea.skorea.military.fire/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1   
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10689604  
 
UPDATE:  
-One South Korean soldier killed by North's shelling, official says 
-After South Korea returned fire at 3:42PM KST the shelling has stopped   
-A second South Korean marine is confirmed dead...
 
CCTV footage of shells landing: 

    
Island in flames: 
   

Photos of the damage: 

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#2  Edited By ravensword

hmm, not seeing it on CNN.com or whatever. Anyway, if true, Jeez. Can south korea even go up against N. Korea? Do they even have the military might? Oh geez, please dont tell me we (the USA) are gonna get involved. God damnit, i bet we are.
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#3  Edited By mike

In the Starcraft II board? Really? 
 
Moving this to Off Topic.

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#5  Edited By Rayfield

Zerg Rush.
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#6  Edited By HitmanAgent47

Any articles about this?

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#7  Edited By Brendan

Link for proof?
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#9  Edited By Subjugation

Requesting link to a reputable source.

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#11  Edited By joeybagad0nutz

O_O Goddammit. Bad time for me to join the US Navy.... Oh shit. Can we have a link? I won't believe you until we have a link.
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#12  Edited By FancySoapsMan

I googled " Yun Pyung Do" and the only result that really matched was this thread.
 
so I have no idea what you're talking about

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#13  Edited By fillmoejoe

Jeezus.

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#14  Edited By Diamond
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#15  Edited By benpack

South Korea might be backed by Japan.

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#16  Edited By chrissedoff

it was probably either an accident or some knucklehead low on the food chain acting without his superiors' knowledge.

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#17  Edited By audiosnag

*nuclear launch detected*
Starcraft jokes aside that can't possibly be good...

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#18  Edited By joeybagad0nutz

Good thing Brad and Drew got back.
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#19  Edited By Olivaw

I don't know how big a deal this is.
 
As far as I know, they've never left a state of war. And this shit happens on the Gaza Strip like every day without everyone flipping their shit.
 
Besides, NK doesn't even have electricity. South Korea could totally take 'em.

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#20  Edited By Diamond
@Olivaw:  NK has enough weaponry to probably destroy Seoul, which would be bad enough, but there is also the question of China.
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#21  Edited By benpack
@Olivaw said:
" I don't know how big a deal this is.  As far as I know, they've never left a state of war. And this shit happens on the Gaza Strip like every day without everyone flipping their shit. Besides, NK doesn't even have electricity. South Korea could totally take 'em. "
Well South Korea doesn't have nuclear weapons in development.
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Phone call from someone on the island translated from a Korean community site: 
"All the villages are close together so it's looking like the whole place might catch on fire. The town's broadcast said that this is not a drill and people should evacuate immediately. They can still hear the sounds of artillery and South Korea is retaliating. The power is out in the entire village. My daughter is at school but she's not answering her phone. It's been 40 minutes since the attack, but they're still not sure about casualties. The people on the island are evacuating by boat. Now they're moving to the middle school because there's a bomb shelter there. There are a lot of bomb shelters on the island though. The village people think a war has broken out so they're telling people to leave by boat. The mountains and buildings are all on fire. I can't see what's around me well because of all the smoke"

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#23  Edited By EpicSteve
@GlenTennis said:
" South Korea might be backed by Japan. "
South Korea is also homed to the American 2nd Infantry Division, about 30,000 soldiers. They'll be fine long enough for the U.S. and other nations for mobilize if needed.
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#24  Edited By joeybagad0nutz

I have a feeling China won't back North Korea. To many countries are against the North Koreans right now. Hell even the Russians would probably back up South Korea.
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Oh dear, here we go again.

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#26  Edited By rentfn

And I just started watching Red Dawn....

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#27  Edited By Red12b

oh christ
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#28  Edited By joeybagad0nutz
@EpicSteve said:
" @GlenTennis said:
" South Korea might be backed by Japan. "
South Korea is also homed to the American 2nd Infantry Division, about 30,000 soldiers. They'll be fine long enough for the U.S. and other nations for mobilize if needed. "

Not to mention the US navy has multiple bases around that area and will be there in the matter of hours (My chief told me this). The amount of Aircraft carries would destory the north koreans. If this for real and not an accident, I don't know wtf the North Koreans are thinking right now.
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#29  Edited By Bones8677
@GlenTennis said:
" South Korea might be backed by Japan. "
I don't think Japan can do that unless they themselves are directly attacked.
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#30  Edited By JJOR64

Holy shit.

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#31  Edited By CL60

Goddamnit North Korea.

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#33  Edited By JJOR64
@CL60 said:
" Goddamnit North Korea. "
I'm thinking the same thing.
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#34  Edited By Red12b

so...

 

bets on how the world will end?

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#35  Edited By BunkerBuster

Well, thats one way to bring in the new leader.

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#36  Edited By joeybagad0nutz
@Red12b said:
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so...

 

bets on how the world will end?

"

Fallout Style. Will be living with mutants.
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#38  Edited By rentfn
@Red12b said:
"

so...

 

bets on how the world will end?

"
Not with a Bang but with a whimper
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#39  Edited By ShadowofIntent
@Diamond:  Even though they share similar political ideologies, China would not back a war against South Korea.
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#40  Edited By Obsidian

Doubtful that this will break out into a large scale war.  Pretty bizarre to hear though.

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#41  Edited By TheHT

Damn, what the hell was it all about?

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#42  Edited By vaiz

Merry Christmas, everybody.

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#43  Edited By fishmicmuffin

Pretty sure South Korea has most of the world on its side, so I have no idea what North Korea was thinking...

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#44  Edited By Red12b

When will NK invade the states...? 
 
what if they fire nukes at SK?
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#45  Edited By sodiumCyclops
@JoeRiccadonna said:
" @Red12b said:
"

so...

 

bets on how the world will end?

"
Fallout Style. Will be living with mutants. "
I'm..... I'm ok with that.
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World War 3. I'm calling it.

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#47  Edited By Red12b

@Depressing_Wizard 
 
Who would be on the Norths side?  
 
That's fairly doubtful, and I am sure that the bigger nations don't want to go to war over a despot.
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#48  Edited By joeybagad0nutz
@Depressing_Wizard said:
"World War 3. I'm calling it. "

How? Most of the world hates North Korea and are allied with the South Koreans.
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#49  Edited By puercoperro335
@Obsidian said:
" Doubtful that this will break out into a large scale war.  Pretty bizarre to hear though. "
I agree with this, if anything this will serve only to speed up a withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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#50  Edited By sodiumCyclops
@Red12b said:
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@Depressing_Wizard  Who would be on the Norths side?   That's fairly doubtful, and I am sure that the bigger nations don't want to go to war over a despot. "
I'm pretty sure China has trade deals with Nk.