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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/north-korea-in-human-shield-claims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Marine veterans salute in front of the portraits of two killed South Korean marines during a funeral service (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-north-korea-in-human-shield-claims.jpg" alt="Marine veterans salute in front of the portraits of two killed South Korean marines during a funeral service (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>North Korea has accused South Korea of using civilians as human shields around artillery positions on an island attacked by the North, seeking to justify a bombardment that killed four South Koreans and sent tensions soaring.</p>
<p>The comments came on the eve of US-South Korean war games in the Yellow Sea that have enraged the North and worried neighbouring China, and after the South Korean marine commander vowed revenge at a funeral for two marines killed in the barrage.</p>
<p>Tuesday&#8217;s attack on Yeonpyeong Island, which houses military bases and tiny fishing communities, also killed two civilians in one of the worst artillery attacks on South Korean territory since the 1950-53 Korean War.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s state news agency said that although &#8220;it is very regrettable, if it is true, that civilian casualties occurred on Yeonpyeong island, its responsibility lies in enemies&#8217; inhumane action of creating a &#8216;human shield&#8217; by deploying civilians around artillery positions.&#8221;</p>
<p>South Korea was conducting artillery drills on Tuesday from the island, located just seven miles from North Korea&#8217;s mainland, but fired away from the mainland.</p>
<p>The North said it warned South Korea to halt the drills on the morning of the attack, as part of &#8220;superhuman efforts to prevent the clash to the last moment&#8221;.</p>
<p>The North said that Sunday&#8217;s planned US-South Korean war games showed that the United States was &#8220;the arch criminal who deliberately planned the incident and wire-pulled it behind the scene&#8221;.</p>
<p>The South Korean commander, Major General You Nak-jun, said the South&#8217;s retaliation would be a &#8220;thousand-fold&#8221; as dignitaries and relatives laid white flowers at an altar during the funeral.</p>
<p>As protesters in Seoul demanded their government take sterner action against North Korea, the North issued new warnings against the war games scheduled to start on Sunday with a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea.</p>
<p>The North called the games an &#8220;unpardonable provocation&#8221; and warned of retaliatory attacks creating a &#8220;sea of fire&#8221; if its own territory is violated. The comments ran on North Korea&#8217;s state-run Uriminzokkiri website a day after the North&#8217;s warnings that the peninsula was on the &#8220;brink of war&#8221;.</p>
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