Dec 19, 2011
Seoul - The South Korean military went on emergency alert Monday after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was announced by state television, a news report said.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered all military units on emergency alert after news was released about the death Saturday of the leader of its neighbor and foe, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
The two Koreas remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
Relations have been tense over the North's nuclear program, its bombardment in November 2010 of a South Korean border island and the sinking of a South Korean warship in March 2010 that Seoul blamed on Pyongyang. It denied the accusations.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said monitoring of the Korean border had been stepped up by South Korean and US forces. Officials told Yonhap that no unusual activity had been observed.
Source: Monsters and Critics.
Link: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1681560.php/South-Korean-military-on-alert-after-Kim-s-death.
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