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A South Korea's K1 tank fires smoke shells during a joint military drill between South Korea and the US in Paju near the inter-Korean border on June 8, 2011 aimed at deterring North Korea's military threat. Tensions on the Korea peninsula are high following two deadly border incidents last year which Seoul blames on its neighbour.

South Korean tank in joint military exercises with U.S.

By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

We missed this picture when it crossed the wire earlier this week. Michael Shaw has an interesting take on it today at BagNews:

There are so many spiritual/supernatural suggestions here, starting with halos, though the ring in the center also looks like one of those symbolic dark clouds a cartoonist will place over a character’s head.

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Update, 3:37 p.m. ET:

Or see FOTO8's contrary take, via their Twitter feed:

@BagNewsNotes no, its a plain pic if an Sry exercise, not art or war actually, just PR. If you want to.discuss war why not tune in to it.

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