Special envoy to Yeonpyeong
“We have a suitcase ready to leave at any time,
” explains Kim Young-shik, installed in his living room where a tray of muddy oysters sits, in front of the television screen showing variety programs.
This septuagenarian says he has no longer slept peacefully since North Korean artillery rumbled again on January 5, off the coast of his native island Yeonpyeong.
200 shells riddled the Yellow Sea, on the edge of the maritime border contested by Kim Jong-un, sounding the alarm on this South Korean outpost, a stone's throw from the "hermit kingdom".
A warning shot from the Supreme Leader, reviving the painful memory of the deadly bombing of 2010 which tore through the center of the port, killing four people, marking the first attack by the North against a civilian town since the armistice of 1953.
This time again, the loudspeakers spat out their warning message, calling on residents to take refuge in the eight shelters dug into the mountain of…
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