Tensions build ahead of S Korea army live-fire drill
South Korea has insisted it will go ahead with a controversial live-fire military exercise, despite serious concern expressed by Russia and China.
A defence ministry official said the exercise, in a disputed area, would go ahead once bad weather had lifted.
North Korea says the drill, on the island it shelled last month with four lives lost, would be a provocation and has threatened to retaliate.
Damon Embling reports.
19 Dec 2010
- From the section Asia-Pacific