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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/clinton-gates-in-south-korea-to-show-support-20100721-10k9m.html

The US diplomatic and military chiefs paid an unprecedented joint visit Wednesday to the border with North Korea in a show of support for South Korea after a deadly naval attack blamed on Pyongyang.

Watched through the window by a curious North Korean soldier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates entered a meeting room straddling the borderline and briefly set foot on the North's side of the room.

Clinton and Gates are leading a high-powered US delegation to the South as a gesture of solidarity following the sinking of a warship in March that killed 46 sailors.

South Korea, its US ally and other countries, citing findings of a multinational investigation, accuse the North of torpedoing the Cheonan warship near the disputed sea border -- a charge it denies.

The incident has sharply raised tensions on the peninsula. Gates and his South Korean counterpart Kim Tae-Young Tuesday announced a major joint naval exercise starting this Sunday as a deterrent to the North.

The South's defence ministry said it would be the first in a series of about 10 joint naval drills in coming months.

Clinton and Gates, visiting the border truce village of Panmunjom in heavy rain, talked to US and South Korean soldiers posted there.

Unlike the rest of the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) bisecting the peninsula, the border at Panmunjom between communist North and capitalist South is marked only by a low line.

"It struck me that although there may be a thin line, these two places are worlds apart," Clinton told reporters.

"The Republic of Korea (South Korea) has made extraordinary progress. In contrast, North Korea has not only stagnated in isolation, the people of the North have suffered for so many years."

It was Clinton's first visit to the DMZ area, which her husband -- then-president Bill Clinton -- described during a 1993 visit as "the scariest place on earth".

"We continue to send a message to the North that there is another way," she said, referring to US pledges of major aid if Pyongyang scraps its nuclear weapons programme.

"Until they change direction the US stands firmly on behalf of the people and government" of South Korea.

Gates also noted that the South continues to grow and prosper.

"The North, by contrast, stagnates in isolation and deprivation. And as we saw with the sinking of the Cheonan, it continues its history of unpredictable and at times provocative behaviour."

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Honestly, I do not understand the conflict between N. and S. Korea. It is a long-standing conflict with many facets - as most international conflicts are.

I am glad to see that SOS Clinton and Secy Gates are making such important and significant statement with their actual physical presence at the border.

That scene of going to a room straddling the border... that's made for a movie!! Some day!

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SECY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON & SECY GATES HEADED TO S. KOREA ON WED 7/21/10 (Team Hillary)




US state, defence secretaries visit Korean demilitarized zone - NHK 100721



-- Edited by Sanders on Wednesday 21st of July 2010 01:06:09 PM

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Go Hillary.

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