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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/s-korea-were-not-afraid-of-war.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has told the North his country is not afraid of war (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-s-korea-were-not-afraid-of-war.jpg" alt="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has told the North his country is not afraid of war (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s president has vowed relentless retaliation against North Korea if provoked again, saying he was not afraid of a war with the communist state.</p>
<p>The two Koreas have ramped up the rhetoric since North Korea shelled front-line Yeonpyeong Island near the tense western sea border last month, killing four South Koreans. Both sides accuse each other of provoking first.</p>
<p>President Lee Myung-bak used much of his regular address to vow to get tougher with any new provocation by North Korea.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have now been awakened to the realisation that war can be prevented and peace assured only when such provocations are met with a strong response,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Fear of war is never helpful in preventing war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Lee said South Korea&#8217;s military &#8220;must respond relentlessly when they come under attack&#8221;.</p>
<p>South Korea has staged a series of military drills &#8211; including one on Yeonpyeong Island on December 20 &#8211; in a show of force against the North. The South was to begin routine naval firing exercises from today, but not on Yeonpyeong and other border islands, according to the Defence Ministry.</p>
<p>North Korea for its part has also kept up rhetoric around last Friday&#8217;s 19th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il&#8217;s appointment as the North&#8217;s supreme military commander. Kim&#8217;s military chief threatened last week to launch a &#8220;sacred&#8221; nuclear war against the South.</p>
<p>On Friday North Korean soldiers appeared on a state TV programme and bragged of participating in the artillery barrage on Yeonpyeong &#8211; the country&#8217;s first attacks on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War.</p>
<p>The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950s conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. In recent years, several bloody naval skirmishes occurred near their disputed western sea border &#8211; drawn by the United Nations at the close of the Korean War.</p>
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