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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Pyongyang says won't react to South Korean drill Reuters - 2 hours 35 minutes ago Send IM Story Print By Kim Do-gyun YEONPYEONG, South Korea - North Korea said it would not react to "reckless" military drills by the South on Monday, despite an earlier threat to retaliate, and CNN reported that Pyongyang had agreed to the return of nuclear inspectors. Air-raid bunkers on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong shook during the live-fire artillery exercise, which went on for over 90 minutes. But the North Korean guns that had shelled the island after a similar drill last month stayed silent, bringing a measure of relief in a crisis that raised fears of war along one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers. "The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK did not feel any need to retaliate against every despicable military provocation," the official KCNA news agency said, quoting a communique from the North's Korean People's Army Supreme Command that called the drills a "childish play with fire." The U.N. Security Council remained deadlocked in its efforts to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, but North Korea's refraining from retaliation and the nuclear offer reportedly made to U.S. trouble-shooter Bill Richardson offered some breathing space. "The situation is very tense," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow. "There can be no optimism in this situation." The United States, in a measured response, said North Korea's decision not to retaliate simply showed it was behaving "the way countries are supposed to act." "The South Korean exercise was defensive in nature. The North Koreans were notified in advance. There was no basis for a belligerent response," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in an emailed statement. The United States did not immediately respond to the report of North Korea's latest nuclear offer. South Korean financial markets took the day's events in their stride, recovering from early falls, but international investors remained concerned, with the cost of insuring South Korean sovereign debt for five years rising 10 percent. The mercurial North had threatened it would strike back if its neighbour went ahead with the live-fire exercise. On November 23, North Korean artillery had shelled Yeonpyeong, close to the disputed maritime border off the west coast of the Korean peninsula, killing four people, in the worst attack on South Korean territory since the Korean war ended in 1953. "It's a perfectly natural thing for a sovereign nation and a divided country to conduct military exercises to defend its territory in the face of military conflict," South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in a statement. Monday's artillery exercise came hours after a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Korean peninsula crisis ended in an impasse, with Russia and China resisting an explicit condemnation of North Korea for last month's attack. POTENTIAL BREAKTHROUGH But amid the gloom, New Mexico Governor Richardson, visiting Pyongyang to try to ease tensions, won agreement from North Korea to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to return, according to CNN, which has a team travelling with him. Pyongyang "agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency personnel to return to a nuclear facility in the country and agreed to negotiate the sale of 12,000 ... fuel rods and ship them to an outside country, presumably to South Korea," CNN said, quoting correspondent Wolf Blitzer in Pyongyang. South Korea's Foreign Ministry said it could not confirm any agreement. "We do not have the specific details yet, so it is too early to make an official evaluation," a spokesman said. Richardson was visiting in an unofficial capacity, the traditional means of communication between the two sides, but it was unclear whether the reported agreement meant real progress, particularly given Pyongyang's poor record of honouring deals. North Korea conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. It expelled inspectors in April 2009 after ripping up a previous disarmament-for-aid agreement. "It means that they are prepared to give up, at least in part, the plutonium program, which has been the source of the fuel rods they came up with," said North Korea expert Kim Yong-hyun of Dongguk University. "It would be considerable progress, if true." However, North Korea last month unveiled major technical progress in uranium enrichment, suggesting another reason it could be willing to end the plutonium program. "Having IAEA inspectors back in Pyongyang looking around is better than not having them, but Pyongyang is still using the same playbook: pursue provocative behaviour, threaten the international community and then come up with some conciliatory gesture," said Nicholas Szechenyi, a senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies "I think this is also an attempt by Pyongyang to take some of the pressure off Beijing. It wouldn't be surprising at all if we saw statements out of the Chinese Foreign Ministry saying that this gesture by North Korea warrants attention and we should return to six-party talks." NERVOUS MARKETS Tension ahead of the military drills hit Korean markets when they opened Monday, but shares recouped most of their losses to close down just 0.3 percent, while the won ended local trade higher against the dollar. Both sides have said they will use force to defend what they say is their territory off the west coast, raising fears the standoff could quickly spiral out of control. Diplomats at the U.N. Security Council said plans for another session on Korean tensions on Monday had been scrapped with China's envoys still awaiting word from Beijing. Russia had called Sunday's emergency Security Council meeting to try to prevent an escalation, but major powers failed to agree on a draft statement because of differences over whether to lay the blame on Pyongyang. "The gaps that remain are unlikely to be bridged," said Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. 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