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The South Korean army said it will hold its largest-ever live-fire drill near the military border with the North on Thursday in a show of force in the wake of Pyongyang's attack on one of its islands last month.
The drill, involving artillery, fighter jets and the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, comes after the South's live-fire artillery exercise on Monday on the island near the tensely guarded sea border and is likely to infuriate Pyongyang.
It will take place on the South Korean mainland.
Tension on the peninsula had begun to ease on Wednesday after suggestions the North might admit U.N. nuclear monitors and South Korea's finance minister said the local economy was weathering the standoff.
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