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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/n-korea-warned-over-future-strikes.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has been criticised over his government's response to the North's attacks" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-n-korea-warned-over-future-strikes.jpg" alt="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has been criticised over his government's response to the North's attacks"/></a></p>
<p>President Lee Myung-bak&#8217;s choice for new defence minister said that South Korean jets will bomb North Korea if Pyongyang stages an attack similar to last week&#8217;s deadly artillery barrage.</p>
<p>The tough words came as Mr Lee&#8217;s government suffered intense criticism that the response to the North&#8217;s November 23 shelling on a South Korean island was weak, and over a stunning revelation that the South&#8217;s spy chief dismissed information in August indicating that North Korea might attack the front-line island.</p>
<p>Lee&#8217;s nominee, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary confirmation hearing that North Korean aggression will result in airstrikes. He said South Korea will use all its combat capabilities to retaliate.</p>
<p>&#8220;In case the enemy attacks our territory and people again, we will thoroughly retaliate to ensure that the enemy cannot provoke again,&#8221; Mr Kim said. The hearing is a formality as South Korea&#8217;s National Assembly does not have the power to reject Mr Lee&#8217;s appointment.</p>
<p>Kim said it will be difficult for North Korea to conduct a full-scale war because of its weak economy and worries over the success of a plan to transfer power from leader Kim Jong Il to his young, untested son, Kim Jong Un.</p>
<p>Despite the bold declarations, questions have been raised about Mr Lee&#8217;s readiness &#8211; and even willingness &#8211; to stand up to the North. The president has been criticised for leading a military whose response to the attack was seen as too slow and too weak. The North fired 170 rounds, compared with 80 returned by South Korea.</p>
<p>Satellite photos showed only about 10 South Korean rounds landed near North Korea&#8217;s army barracks along the west coast, according to the office of lawmaker Kwon Young-se, who said he saw the images provided on Thursday by the National Intelligence Service.</p>
<p>Also Friday, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea has boosted the number of multiple-launch rockets capable of hitting Seoul. Yonhap, citing an unidentified South Korean military source, said North Korea&#8217;s rockets have increased by 100 pieces to about 5,200.</p>
<p>The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it could not confirm the report because it involves military intelligence.</p>
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