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US, S Korea to hold more war games
As tensions continue to run high in the Korean Peninsula, top US and South Korean military officers announce plans to stage more joint military exercises.
The announcement came as top military officials of the two countries, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and his South Korean counterpart General Han Min-Koo held talks in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Wednesday over the deteriorating situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The two officials condemned North Korea's recent alleged attacks on Yeonpyeong Island, describing it as deliberate and illegal.
During the meeting, Mullen reiterated Washington's commitment to defend South Korea.
US President Barack Obama has already promised what he called unshakeable support for Seoul.
In recent months, the US and South Korea have conducted several massive joint sea and air drills in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.
The North has called the drills provocative and an effort to trigger a war, warning the South against holding more joint military exercises with Washington.
Tensions have erupted between the two Koreas after last month's deadly clash between South and North Korean forces along their disputed sea borders.
The fighting left four South Koreans, including two civilians, dead. Each side blames the other for initiating the fighting.
'South Korean boat sinks, 22 dead'
At least 22 people have been killed and 20 others rescued after a South Korean fishing boat with 42 crew members sank off the Antarctica, reports say.
According to a Foreign Ministry's statement, 20 of the crew members were rescued by another fishing boat operating nearby.
"Survival times in the water are about 10 minutes without lifejackets or immersion suits," the ministry said in the statement.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry and coast guard officials said the 614-ton ship with 42 seamen aboard sank around 4:30 a.m. on Monday South Korean time (1930 GMT) about 1,400 miles (2,250 kilometers) south of New Zealand.
Among the crew were Chinese, Indonesians, Filipinos and one Russian.
Maritime NZ said the trawler, Number One Insung, went down about 1,000 nautical miles north of the McMurdo Antarctic base with no warning in apparently calm conditions.
"We had no distress signal, at this stage we don't know what caused the vessel to sink," Maritime NZ spokesman Ross Henderson said.
The spokesperson added that New Zealand's rescue coordination center was not informed of the accident until 1:00 p.m., about six-and-a-half hours after it occurred.
Three South Korean and two New Zealand fishing vessels aided in the search and rescue efforts, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that the water temperature in the area was 2 degrees Celsius, or 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Rescue Coordination Center New Zealand said there was no immediate indication for the cause of the sinking. The center also said no distress call had been issued.
In August, three people died when a South Korean fishing vessel went down 400 miles east of Dunedin, New Zealand. The New Zealand rescue agency saved 45 crew members from the ship, a spokeswoman said at the time.
In April, just days after a South Korean warship was sunk by a torpedo allegedly fired by North Korea, a South Korean fishing boat sank during the search for survivors. That boat apparently collided with a freighter.
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