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South Korean residents wear gas masks at a shelter on Yeonpyeong island,  South Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010
Monday, Dec. 20, 2010

Open quoteThey want to show they are tough. Lee Myung-bak cannot show his weakness, both domestically and in front of North Korea.Close quote

  • ANDREI LANKOV,
  • professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, on South Korea staging live-fire artillery drills on an island shelled by the North. Pyongyang's response was that it's, "not worth reacting" to the exercise
Photo: Ahn Young-joon / AP | Source: NYT