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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Full Focus Photos of the week Our top photos from the past week. Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis | 17 Jun 2011 ".brands" approach with Internet name shake-up 17 Jun 2011 Oracle seeks up to $6.1 billion in Google lawsuit 17 Jun 2011 Black hole shreds star, sparking gamma ray flash 16 Jun 2011 Syria forces kill 19 in biggest protests: activists | 17 Jun 2011 Discussed 114 Obama weighs new steps to boost jobs 72 Republicans to debate, with Romney the frontrunner 47 Weiner tells friends he will resign: NY Times Watched Airbus' view of flying in the future Mon, Jun 13 2011 Hefner, fiancee split; Schwarzenegger mistress talks Wed, Jun 15 2011 Rep. Weiner resigns over online scandal Thu, Jun 16 2011 South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Marines reservist held in incident near Pentagon Fri, Jun 17 2011 Syrians flee northern town, Assad envoy in Turkey Wed, Jun 15 2011 Police use tear gas to quell riot in southern China Mon, Jun 13 2011 German stocks - Factors to watch on June 13 Mon, Jun 13 2011 Helicopters open fire to disperse Syrian protesters Fri, Jun 10 2011 Analysis & Opinion $96 for noise citations Monterreyâ€™s drug war madness cripples model city Related Topics World » South Korea » North Korea » Aerospace & Defense » By Sung-won Shim SEOUL, Jun | Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:32am EDT SEOUL, Jun (Reuters) - South Korean marine Corps troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, military sources said on Saturday. A Marine Corps spokesman said two soldiers guarding an island on the waters off the South's western city of Incheon, fired their K-2 rifles for about 10 minutes at around 4 a.m. on Friday. The plane was later identified as a flight by South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines making its descent to Incheon International Airport, Seoul's main airport. A defense ministry source said the plane, carrying 119 passengers and crew on a flight from China, was undamaged as it was about 500 to 600 meters out of the range of the hand-held K-2 rifles. The Yonhap News Agency and other local media said the soldiers believed the plane was flying north of the normal air corridor. Asiana Airlines officials told the news agency the plane never went off course. "We checked yesterday through the air force and the airport control center to make sure there were no abnormalities such as being off course," Yonhap quoted a company official as saying. Airline officials were not immediately available for comment. Yonhap and other news reports quoted marine corps officers as saying soldiers will now undergo thorough training on how to identify civil aircraft. Airlines will be asked to ensure their planes do not deviate from set courses. Tension remains high between the two Koreas, still technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty. Two deadly attacks last year killed about 50 South Koreans, including civilians. The North denies responsibility in the sinking last March of a South Korean warship and says it was provoked in the second incident, the shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong after the South test-fired shells into disputed waters. The North this month rejected a proposal from Seoul for a series of three presidential summits after a secret meeting of officials from the two countries. The North denounces the South's call for an apology for the two attacks. 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