North Korea/South Korea: N. Korea likely to further provoke S. Korea ahead of G-20 summit: scholar.

Section: General News - North Korea will likely make further provocations ahead of South Korea's hosting of the G-20 economic summit in November with the aim of raising tensions and enhancing negotiating leverage in future nuclear talks, a U.S. scholar said Sunday.

"It is possible that the Cheonan sinking is not a singular event but rather the beginning of a pre-planned North Korean campaign to raise tensions on the Korean Peninsula," Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, told Yonhap News Agency through e-mail. "If that is the case, North Korea will engage in additional provocative behavior, particularly in the run-up to Seoul's hosting of the G-20 summit in November." Feulner was discussing the sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan, near the sea border with North Korea along the west coast March 26 and the death of 46 sailors, …