Taiwan's military conducted a live ammunition artillery drill on Tuesday simulating the island's defense against a Chinese invasion that the top diplomat accuses Beijing of planning. The drills, with a second scheduled for Thursday, will involve the deployment of several hundred soldiers and about 40 howitzers, the army said.
As an interesting postscript to the event, Lee Kwang-soo, the captured helmsman, defected to South Korea and became a naval instructor. More than a decade later, he would speak out publicly that the sinking of the South Korean frigate Cheonan was the work of a North Korean submarine.
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