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Relations between North and South Korea became tensest for fifty years after North Korea’s on a South Korean island. The military strike happened on Monday. The North dozens of rockets at Yeonpyeong Island, killing four people and 18 others. The South immediately threatened to back if there were more military . The North the South for starting the ; the South said it fired test missiles in the but that none fell in the North’s territory. South Korea’s stock markets at the news.

Yeonpyeong Island, by 200 military and civilian personnel, is about 30 km off the of North Korea. It is over 100 km from the South Korean mainland. Both countries it as their own. It is on the North Korean of the Military Demarcation Line which the two Koreas after fighting in the Korean War in 1953. However, the island is south of the Northern Limit Line, which South Korea is its territory. The two countries never a peace deal and are still officially at . Chinese officials have called for .  Check your answers