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The attack
helicopter went down in the county of Wonju in Gangwon province,
the officials said.
About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea in joint
defense with the South's forces against North Korea. The two
Koreas are in a technical state of war under a truce after their
1950-53 Korean War.
On Monday, South Korea's military conducted artillery live-fire
drills on islands near a disputed maritime border with North
Korea, ignoring Pyongyang's threat to fire back if any of the
shells landed in its waters.
(Reporting by Ju-min Park and Minwoo Park, Writing by Jack Kim;
Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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