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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/s-korea-mounts-huge-show-of-force.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korea has mobilised troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets for its largest winter military drills" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-s-korea-mounts-huge-show-of-force.jpg" alt="South Korea has mobilised troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets for its largest winter military drills"/></a></p>
<p>South Korea has mobilised troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets for its largest winter military drills in a show of force a month after North Korea&#8217;s deadly shelling of a front-line island.</p>
<p>The drills, which begin at training grounds in mountainous Pocheon near the Koreas&#8217; heavily-fortified border, signalled South Korea&#8217;s determination to demonstrate and hone its military strength at the risk of further escalation with North Korea.</p>
<p>Jeeps wove their way up a winding road to the military base, passing armed soldiers and a ski resort where skiers and snowboarders were enjoying fresh snowfall. A thick fog hung over the area.</p>
<p>Exactly a month ago, routine South Korean live-fire drills from Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea triggered a shower of North Korean artillery that killed two marines and two construction workers.</p>
<p>It was the first military attack on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce.</p>
<p>North Korea, which claims the waters around the South Korean-held island lying just seven miles from its shores as its territory, accused the South of sparking the exchange by ignoring Pyongyang&#8217;s warnings against staging the live-fire drills near their disputed maritime border.</p>
<p>Amid international concerns of all-out war on the tense Korean peninsula, South Korea has pushed ahead with military exercises over the past several weeks, including live-fire drills from Yeonpyeong Island and Monday&#8217;s land-based exercises.</p>
<p>The latest drills will be the biggest-ever wintertime firing exercises staged by South Korea&#8217;s army and air force, a military statement said.</p>
<p>Forty-seven similar exercises have taken place this year but today&#8217;s manoeuvres were planned in response to the North Korean attack, an army officer said.</p>
<p>There was no immediate response from North Korea, which has shown restraint in recent days.</p>
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