Asia-Pacific

Seoul rejects DPRK's 'provocation' blame

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-05 11:58

ROK?Marines (L) set up tents for shelter from the rain as rescue operations for possible survivors of the sunken naval ship Cheonan are held up by bad weather conditions, at the seashore on Baengnyeongdo, an island near the border with the DPRK March 31, 2010.?[Agencies]

SEOUL: The Republic of Korea (ROK)'s?Defense Ministry on Monday rejected the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s claim a day ago that the country "committed grave armed provocation" in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two countries.

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"Such an event did not take place," a defense ministry official said, when asked about the accusation reported by DPRK's state media that RKO soldiers intruded into the DMZ and fired guns toward a civilian police post in the DPRK.

Pyongyang denounced the alleged move as a "premeditated provocation."

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