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To: lorne who wrote (35114)	6/11/1999 6:09:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

NKorea ships return after being driven away << South Korea earlier said four of its vessels pushed the four North Korean boats back over the border by repeatedly ramming them after the North Korean vessels intruded into southern waters for a fifth consecutive day. The two Koreas remain technically at war across the world's most militarised frontier because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armed truce and not a peace agreement. ''We adopted a bump and push tactic between 11:40 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. (0240 GMT and 0310 GMT) which pushed four North Korean patrol boats back into their territory,'' said Col. Hwang Dong-kyu, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Neither side fired during the episode, he told reporters. Four South Korean high-speed patrol ships suffered light damage but the four North Korean ships were more seriously damaged, including one which was partially submerged, he said. >> abcnews.go.com *** Iraq says Iran fired three missiles into Iraq << Iraq said on Friday that Iran had fired three long-range missiles at an Iranian exile opposition group base inside Iraq. ''At 8:46 a.m. local time (1646 GMT) on Thursday the Iranian regime fired three ground-to-ground missiles at a basecamp inside Iraq which belongs to Mujahideen Khalq,'' the official Iraqi news agency INA quoted a government spokesman as saying. >> abcnews.go.com *** Morning Lorne, Must be the heat ... the world's madmen are getting restless. Then again, if Slick can solve all his problems with a big stick, why not them? John