Shots Fired on the DMZ

This is receiving way to much air time on US news channels:

A midday incursion Saturday by North Korean troops into the southern side of the no-man’s-land separating North and South Korea only stoked the unease.

South Korean soldiers rattled off 40 warning shots at the five communist troops who crossed the center line of the DMZ, the inter-Korean buffer.

It was unclear whether the North Korean advance was intended as a provocation, or was an attempt to go fishing at a nearby stream, an official at South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on condition of anonymity, citing official policy. No one was hurt, and the North Koreans retreated.

Border incursions by the North Koreans are nothing new.  Usually the North Koreans provoke an incident by firing at the South Koreans first.  This time it appears these soldiers were probably just trying to get a little fishing in since they didn’t fire at the South Koreans.  Who knows but this is definitely not worthy of the amount of news coverage it is getting.  What is even worse is when the US news coverage of this incident is followed up with a North Korea “expert” providing his analysis of how the US should bomb North Korea’s missile sites to prevent a North Korean nuclear attack on the US main land.

With “expert” analysis like this, is it any wonder why Americans appear to be more scared of Kim Jong-il than the people of Seoul who live within artillery range of North Korea?

More over at Nomad on this.  Maybe Frank can provide some fishing tips for the North Koreans.