South Korean navy hovercrafts

South Korean navy hovercrafts are berthed during an exercise in the waters off the South Korea-controlled Yeonpyeong island on June 5, 2009. North Korea has agreed to hold talks with South Korea next week, Seoul officials said, amid high tensions between the two nations. South Korean and US troops have been on heightened alert since the North staged a nuclear test in late May, renounced the armistice that ended the Korean war in the 1950s and threatened the South with possible attack.

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