News Today, November 04, 2009

U.S. Marine of Echo Company Weapons Platoon Commander, 1st Lt. John J. Dick from New Jersey, takes a position after landing in the landing operation during a South Korea and U.S. joint military exercise at Pohang beach, 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) southeast of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal.



POHANG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 04: U.S. Marine soldiers partcipate the U.S. and South Korean Marines Joint Landing Exercise at Pohang seashore on November 4, 2009 in Pohang,



U.S. Marines based in Okinawa, Japan, take position as South Korean policeman,background, stands guard to block possible anti-U.S. protest after landing in the landing operation during a South Korea and U.S. joint military exercise at Pohang beach, 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) southeast of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.



POHANG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 04: U.S. Marine soldiers partcipate the U.S. and South Korean Marines Joint Landing Exercise at Pohang seashore on November 4, 2009 in Pohang, South Korea. South Korean marines conducted a joint landing operation with U.S. marines to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea, which the South remains technically at war with since the end of the Korean War in 1953.


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