{"id":252881,"date":"2025-03-06T07:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/south-korean-fighter-jets-mistakenly-bomb-village-leaving-7-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:59:13","slug":"south-korean-fighter-jets-mistakenly-bomb-village-leaving-7-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/south-korean-fighter-jets-mistakenly-bomb-village-leaving-7-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Fighter Jets Mistakenly Bomb Village, Leaving 7 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/06\/multimedia\/06skorea-military-gflq\/06skorea-military-gflq-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"South Korean Fighter Jets Mistakenly Bomb Village, Leaving 7 Injured\" title=\"South Korean Fighter Jets Mistakenly Bomb Village, Leaving 7 Injured\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A South Korean village near the North Korean border was mistakenly shelled on Thursday by two fighter jets from the South\u2019s own air force, leaving seven people injured and damaging homes and a church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The jets were taking part in a joint exercise with the United States military when each of them dropped four bombs, according to the South\u2019s military. The bombs were meant to hit a range several miles from the village, but at least one of the South Korean pilots had entered inaccurate coordinates, the military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two of the injured people were seriously wounded, said officials in Pocheon, a town that includes the village of Nogok, where the bombs fell. Local news outlets said none of the victims were in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military said it was suspending all live-fire drills while an investigation was carried out. The exercise Thursday was connected to annual joint exercises, known as Freedom Shield, that the South Korean and U.S. military carry out every year, and which are set to officially begin on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was no immediate comment from the United States military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A woman in Nogok who runs a shop in her home said she was there when an \u201cearthquake-like\u201d explosion rattled the village, breaking windows in her house and in neighbors\u2019 houses. Her home was 700 feet from the spot where the most serious damage was reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Photos carried by local news outlets showed a house in the village with parts of its walls and tiled roof blown away. They also showed damage to a Catholic church, and torn branches from pine trees strewn around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The South Korean Air Force did not say how many of the eight bombs dropped had hit Nogok, which is about 20 miles from the heavily fortified North Korean border. It issued an apology and promised compensation for the victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the South Korean and United States militaries said that this year\u2019s Freedom Shield exercises would begin on Monday and run for 11 days. But in recent days, they had begun smaller joint drills in connection with the main exercises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea. The allies conduct several joint military exercises each year, calling them defensive in nature. The Carl Vinson American aircraft carrier group steamed into a South Korean port this week to join the Freedom Shield exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">North Korea bristles at the drills, calling them rehearsals for war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, who also acts as his spokeswoman, accused President Trump\u2019s administration of \u201cmost hostile and confrontational will\u201d against her country, citing its continuation of the joint exercises with South Korea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe will never confine ourselves to sitting still and commenting on the situation,\u201d Ms. Kim said. She indicated that North Korea might resume testing nuclear-capable weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/world\/asia\/south-korea-jets-bomb-village.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean village near the North Korean border was mistakenly shelled on Thursday by two fighter jets from the South\u2019s own air force, leaving seven people injured and damaging homes and a church. The jets were taking part in a joint exercise with the United States military when each of them dropped four bombs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/06\/multimedia\/06skorea-military-gflq\/06skorea-military-gflq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35332,137233,72,19,8313,1517,195769,10820,126255,85994,195768,6967,163574,4616],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252883,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252881\/revisions\/252883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}