North Korea is back in the spotlight after three Chinese citizens were shot dead by the secretive country's border guards on a river crossing between the two countries.
The guards opened fire near the Chinese border town of Dandong as the group of Chinese nationals was crossing last Friday. Three people were killed and a fourth wounded. Some reports in the Chinese media suggest they were smugglers.
Foreign Ministry officials here in Beijing say they have raised the issue with Pyongyang and that an investigation is underway.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in South Korea this week to show unity between the two countries and to plan joint-military drills meant to-- as one U.S. military official put it-- send a message of deterrence to North Korea.
This comes four months after the sinking of a South Korean warship- the Cheonan- which killed 46 soldiers.
The United Nations condemned the attack, but did not go as far as laying blame on North Korea.
An international investigation led by south Korea concluded it was sunk by a North Korean torpedo, which North Korea denies.
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