Lee-Myung 400SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak made a surprise visit Thursday to an island near the tense border with North Korea that was shelled by Pyongyang two years ago, a spokeswoman said.

 

"President Lee visited Yeonpyeong island in order to check the security status there ahead of the second anniversary of the shelling on the island," presidential spokeswoman Lee Mi-Yon told AFP.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012

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