North Korea

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Top US special envoy on North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks to the media in Beijing on November 23, 2010. Bosworth said the United States and China agreed that restraint should be exercised on the Korean peninsula after North Korea fired a deadly barrage of artillery shells onto a South Korean island in one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war. Bosworth's arrival in Beijing follows North Korea's claim that it has a working uranium enrichment programme, another act by Pyongyang that has set off alarm bells.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: An ambulance and its crew board the ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: An ambulance and its crew board the ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

South Korean veterans burn a North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally in downtown Seoul on November 30, 2010 denouncing North Korea's November 23 attack on Yeonpyeong island. South Korea deployed rocket launchers and extra artillery on a frontline border island bombarded last week by North Korea, as Seoul's leader vowed on November 29 to make Pyongyang pay for any fresh provocations.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

South Korean veterans burn a North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally in downtown Seoul on November 30, 2010 denouncing North Korea's November 23 attack on Yeonpyeong island. South Korea deployed rocket launchers and extra artillery on a frontline border island bombarded last week by North Korea, as Seoul's leader vowed on November 29 to make Pyongyang pay for any fresh provocations.

South Korean veterans burn a North Korea flag during a rally at a peace park in Incheon, west of Seoul, on December 8, 2010 denouncing North Korea's artillery attack on Yeongpyeong border island. US and South Korean military chiefs held talks on ways to deter North Korea without triggering a war, as a firing drill by the North briefly rattled Seoul's financial markets.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this handout image, smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: In this image provided by a local resident, Smoke rises from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Firefighters and fire trucks board a ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: In this handout image provided by Incheon Fire and Safety Management Department, firefighters are seen inspecting the damage caused by the artillery shells fired by North Korea on November 24 in Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: In this handout image provided by Incheon Fire and Safety Management Department, firefighters are seen inspecting the damage caused by the artillery shells fired by North Korea on November 24 in Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Top US special envoy on North Korea Stephen Bosworth speaks to the media in Beijing on November 23, 2010. Bosworth said the United States and China agreed that restraint should be exercised on the Korean peninsula after North Korea fired a deadly barrage of artillery shells onto a South Korean island in one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war. Bosworth's arrival in Beijing follows North Korea's claim that it has a working uranium enrichment programme, another act by Pyongyang that has set off alarm bells.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: An ambulance and its crew board the ship to go to Yeonpyeong island near the border with North Korea on November 23, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea hit the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean forces. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Pak Hyon Suk of North Korea poses on the podium during the award ceremony for the women's 63 kg weightlifting event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 12, 2008. North Korea is eyeing a third consecutive women's football gold at the Asian Games and have high hopes of success in gymnastics and weightlifting as they plan ahead to the 2012 Olympics.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak receives a briefing at the control center of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Defence Ministry November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (R) and Kim Dai-sung of South Korea compete in their fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (R) and Kim Dai-sung of South Korea compete in their fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (2ndR) and Kim Dai-sung (2nd L) of South Korea arrive with officials and coaches for their fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

YEONPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Destroyed houses are seen on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, following artillery exchange between North and South Korea on November 24, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Destroyed houses are seen on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, following artillery exchange between North and South Korea on November 24, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: A survivor of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea shows their emotion after arriving at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: A survivor of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea shows their emotion after arriving at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: South Korean coast guard and police ships are loaded with relief supplies bound for residents of Yeonpyeong Island at a port on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

South Korean veterans burn a North Korean flag in front of a statue of the late US General Douglas MacArthur during a rally at a peace park in Incheon, west of Seoul, on December 8, 2010 denouncing North Korea's artillery attack on Yeongpyeong border island. US and South Korean military chiefs held talks on ways to deter North Korea without triggering a war, as a firing drill by the North briefly rattled Seoul's financial markets.

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - UNDATED: In this detail from a photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service on September 30, 2010 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R, front row) and the man believed to be his son Kim Jong-un, (L, front row) pose for photographs with delegates of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean leader Kim was re-appointed as the party's secretary general and has made a military general of Kim Jong-Un, believed to be his third son.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak receives a briefing at the control center of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Defence Ministry November 23, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (R) and Kim Dai-sung of South Korea compete in their fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (R) and Kim Dai-sung of South Korea compete in their fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

YEONPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Destroyed houses are seen on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, following artillery exchange between North and South Korea on November 24, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

YEONPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Destroyed houses are seen on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, following artillery exchange between North and South Korea on November 24, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: Survivors of the artillery exchange between North and South Korea arrive at Incheon port from Yeonpyeong Island on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: South Korean coast guard officers prepare to depart to Yeonpyeong island from a port on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: A woman waits for her relatives to be evacuated from Yeonpyeong island as South Korean coast guard look on at the port on November 24, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.

Yang Chun Song of North Korea (R) and Kim Dai-sung (L) of South Korea fight for the 1/8 final men�s Freestyle 66kg wrestling competition at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 24, 2010. The bout between the two athletes comes one day after after the North Korean rained a deadly artillery barrage on the Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong that belongs to South Korea. Korean peninsula politics have disturbed the Asian Games before too, South Korea was scheduled to host the games in 1970, but threats from North Korea forced organizers to relocate the games to Thailand.

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 24: (SOUTH Destroyed houses are seen on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, following artillery exchange between North and South Korea on November 24, 2010 in Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea struck the South Korean Island of Yeonpyeong reportedly causing injuries and prompting return fire from South Korean troops. The incident comes amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear program and the announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son as his successor.