| [Kyodo: Korea] A U.S. official on Monday lashed out the firing of over 100 artillery rounds by North Korea into the Yellow Sea near the maritime border with South Korea, while noting that Pyongyang is likely to take more provocative action despite repeated warnings not to do so by the United States. ""Certainly, the firing of a very large number of rounds in the region is the last thing that we want to see and is certainly not the best way to reduce tensions,"" State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told a press conference. |