SEOUL - South Korea on Sunday showed no sign of reconsidering its plan for live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island, despite North Korean threats of retaliation and mounting international efforts to prevent an intra-peninsular showdown.
South Korean military officials on Sunday reiterated their intention to hold the drills on either Monday or Tuesday, depending on clear weather, setting up a potential crisis that the United Nations Security Council will address on Sunday morning. North Korea has said that if Seoul goes ahead with the artillery drills on Yeonpyeong Island - just seven miles from the North Korean coastline - it will lead to "catastrophe."
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