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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fresh-attack-heard-on-korean-island.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Fire flares up near a South Korean Marine's K-9 self-propelled gun after the area was hit by North Korean artillery shells (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-fresh-attack-heard-on-korean-island.jpg" alt="Fire flares up near a South Korean Marine's K-9 self-propelled gun after the area was hit by North Korean artillery shells (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Artillery fire has been heard on the Yellow Sea island attacked earlier this week by North Korea, South Korea has said.</p>
<p>Military chiefs said the artillery was heard twice on the Yeonpyeong island, as the North warned that US-South Korean military drills planned for the weekend were pushing the peninsula to the brink of war.</p>
<p>The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said two explosive sounds were heard on Yeonpyeong, while television news reporters also reported a third blast.</p>
<p>In its &#8220;brink of war&#8221; warning, the Korean Central News Agency added: &#8220;Gone are the days when verbal warnings are served only.&#8221;</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s army and people were &#8220;now greatly enraged&#8221; and &#8220;getting fully ready to give a shower of dreadful fire&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Escalated confrontation would lead to a war, and he who is fond of playing with fire is bound to perish,&#8221; the agency said.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s state news agency said earlier the drills involving South Korean forces and a US nuclear-powered supercarrier south of Tuesday&#8217;s skirmish between the rival Koreas were a reckless plan by &#8220;trigger-happy elements&#8221;, and the manoeuvres targeted the North.</p>
<p>General Walter Sharp, the US military commander in South Korea, has visited Yeonpyeong island, where four South Koreans &#8211; two marines and two civilians &#8211; were killed in the hour-long clash when the North unleashed a hail of artillery.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak ordered reinforcements for about 4,000 troops on Yeonpyeong and four other Yellow Sea islands, as well as top-level weaponry for the soldiers. </p>
<p>He also upgraded rules of engagement that would create a new category of response when civilian areas were targeted and sacked his defence minister amid the intense criticism over lapses in the country&#8217;s response to the attack.</p>
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