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# Amateur footage of North Korea attack on Yeonpyeong island
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## Amateur videos show plumes of smoke emerging from South Korea's Yeonpyeong
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island after North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells setting more than 60
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houses ablaze, killing two South Korean soldiers and sending civilians fleeing
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in terror.
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TelegraphPlayer-8153231
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9:30AM GMT 23 Nov 2010
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The attack, which comes days after it emerged that North Korea was pressing
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ahead with its illegal nuclear programme, marks a serious further escalation
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of tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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The incident is believed to have been sparked by South Korean military
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exercises in the area, which the North had objected to.
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Officials said "dozens" of artillery rounds had landed on **[Yeonpyeong
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Island][1]** at in the Yellow Sea, 50 miles off the South's northwest coast in
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an area close to a disputed sea border. Other reports suggested around 200
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shells could have been fired in the attack which began at 2.34pm local time
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(7.34am GMT).
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F-16 fighter jets were scrambled and South Korean land-based forces returned
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fire on the North as civilians were evacuated to emergency bunkers, according
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to witnesses quoted by the Seoul-based cable news television channel YTN.
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[![North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of shells at a South Korean border
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island, setting buildings ablaze and injuring several people, Seoul officials
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25 Nov 2010
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[![A South Korean Marine base housing its K-9 self-propelled guns burns after
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it was hit by North Korean artillery shells on Yeonpyeong island][21] ][22]
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26 Nov 2010
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[![North and South Korea have moved closer to a war footing around the Yellow
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21 Jan 2011
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[![North Korea broadcasts propaganda response to Yeonpyeong Island
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shelling][29] ][30]
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