In response to provocations from nuclear power North Korea, South Korea does the unthinkable -- they erect a Christmas tree within sight of their mutual border!
"North Korea, officially atheist and with only a handful of sanctioned churches in Pyongyang with services for foreigners, warned that lighting the tree would constitute a 'dangerous, rash act' with the potential to trigger a war.
The tree is "... a sign that South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's administration is serious about countering the North's aggression with measures of its own in the wake of an artillery attack that killed four South Koreans last month."
"The brightly lit, 100-foot-tall steel tree — with a cross on top — stood in stark relief to North Korea, where electricity is limited... the tree lighting at Aegibong is a signal that the South is ready to play hardball until it sees real change from the North."
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