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North Korean Ship Crosses South's Border

South broadcasts 10 warnings in overnight violation

(Newser) - A North Korean patrol ship crossed a maritime border with the South multiple times last night, South Korea's defense ministry says. It finally ended up in North Korean waters—but not until the South had broadcast 10 warnings, Yonhap News reports. The border crossing may have been "part...

Seoul, US Start War Games
 Seoul, US Start War Games 
Feb 24, 2014 7:44 AM CST

Seoul, US Start War Games

So far, North Korea's response is muted

(Newser) - North Korea formerly threatened to cancel the long-awaited family reunions between the two Koreas if South Korea went ahead with its annual joint military drills with the US. But as it stands, both events are happening simultaneously. As the six-day reunion continued today, the military drills began, the BBC reports;...

For Koreans, a Joyous Reunion 60 Years in Making

After seeing brother, man would 'have no regrets if I were to die tomorrow'

(Newser) - Some 82 elderly South Koreans, in their Sunday best, traveled by bus into North Korea today where they met with relatives they hadn't seen in 60 years, and—at an average age of 84—likely will never see again, the Washington Post reports. The event marked the start of...

Man, 91, Rides Ambulance 90 Miles to Korea Reunion

North, South reunions set to begin tomorrow

(Newser) - The first North-South Korea reunions in three years are in tentative motion, with South Koreans set to tomorrow meet relatives they haven't seen in six decades . With so much time elapsed, it's no wonder that the average age of the 82 South Koreans who will be the first...

Toll Hits 10 in S. Korea Resort Collapse

Snow-laden roof fell in on college students

(Newser) - A resort auditorium's roof loaded down with snow and rain collapsed during a welcoming ceremony for South Korean university freshmen yesterday, killing 10 and injuring more than 100, officials say. Emergency staff worked through the night to pull people from beneath twisted metal and other debris and rush the...

Militants in Egypt Hit New Target: S. Korean Tourists

Bus carrying foreigners bombed near Israel border, killing 4

(Newser) - An explosion on a bus carrying South Korean tourists in Egypt yesterday left three South Koreans and the Egyptian driver dead, al Jazeera reports. At least 13 others were wounded in the attack on the bus, whose riders, a South Korean church group, had visited a Greek Orthodox monastery in...

South Korean Lawmaker Jailed for Pro-North Plot

Left-wing Lee Seok-ki has denied treason allegations

(Newser) - For the first time in South Korea's nearly three decades as a democracy, a member of parliament has been convicted of treason. Left-wing lawmaker Lee Seok-ki has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over plans he discussed with 130 attendees of a late-night meeting in May, the Wall ...

Koreas Hunker Down for Rare Talks

But Pyongyang's motivation remains a mystery; no set agenda

(Newser) - For the first time in more than seven years, high-level officials from North and South Korea are hunkered down for talks in Panmunjom today—talks called by the North amid much suspicion over its motives, Reuters reports. Both sides sent top officials to the gathering; the head of Seoul's...

N. Korea Already Threatening to Ax Reunions

Thanks to US B-52 flight

(Newser) - Well, that was fast. North Korea is already threatening to call off a reunion for families separated by the Korean War that it agreed to only yesterday , in response to a US bomber sortie over South Korea. "As we were reaching an agreement on the separated families, B-52 bombers...

Koreans Families Separated for 60 Years to Reunite

New round of reunions scheduled for Feb. 20 to 25

(Newser) - The two Koreas today gave the green light to the first family reunions since October 2010. The meetings of select families from the North and South—who have had no communication since the 1950-'53 Korean War—will occur Feb. 20 to 25 at Mount Kumgang, described by Yonhap News...

60 Years Later, Divided Korean Families Could Meet

North, South to discuss potential reunions on Wednesday

(Newser) - Families split by the Koreas' North-South divide could soon be reunited for the first time since the Korean War's 1953 end, though uncertainty remains. The North today agreed to talks aimed at planning the reunions, which the South has proposed run from Feb. 17 to 22, the New York ...

Va. Governor in Deep Trouble Over ... Sea of Japan?

Textbook change sparks international incident

(Newser) - More than 100 people crammed the hallways outside a small subcommittee meeting room in Virginia's legislature yesterday, cheering as the bill under consideration moved forward, the Daily Press reports. The bill that raised such passion sounds innocuous enough—it would require textbooks to mention that the Sea of Japan...

Kim Eradicated Uncle's Whole Family: Report

Brothers' children, grandchildren executed: South Korean news

(Newser) - Following the execution of Kim Jong Un's uncle , Jang Song Thaek , reports claimed that hundreds of Jang's relatives had been arrested . Now, a source tells South Korea's Yonhap News Agency , "all relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children." Among them are...

Seoul's Weather Forecast Calls for 'Acid Snow'

It's like acid rain, but colder

(Newser) - The "bombogenesis" storm now slamming the East Coast is nasty stuff, but at least forecasters aren't throwing around the phrase "acid snow." Quartz did a double-take upon hearing this weather report from Arirang News for Seoul, South Korea: "Please be sure to have an umbrella...

Japan PM Visits Shrine, Thumbs Nose at China, S. Korea

Both are enraged over deliberate WWII snub

(Newser) - Japanese PM Shinzo Abe set off a diplomatic furor today with a visit to a shrine to Japan's World War II dead—including no shortage of war criminals—that has China and South Korea sputtering in rage. Dressed to the nines and appearing on live television, Abe entered the...

Hundreds Related to Kim&#39;s Uncle Arrested
 Hundreds Related to 
 Kim's Uncle Arrested 
Local report
Dec 23, 2013 11:22 AM CST

Hundreds Related to Kim's Uncle Arrested

South Korean official doubts 'power struggle' led to execution

(Newser) - Authorities have rounded up hundreds of relatives of Kim Jong Un's recently executed uncle and ferried them to prison camps, according to a report out of Seoul. The night after Jang Song Thaek was executed, "armed men from the Ministry of State Security arrived unannounced in the Pyongchon...

N. Korea Faxes Threat to South
 N. Korea Faxes Threat to South 
Dec 20, 2013 5:29 AM CST

N. Korea Faxes Threat to South

Warns it will strike 'without notice' after rallies held in Seoul

(Newser) - North Korea has issued quite the threat to South Korea ... via fax. Yonhap reports that the North's National Defense Commission yesterday faxed the South's National Security Council, and its message contained a threat to strike the South "without notice." Yonhap explains that the fax followed a...

At Issue in East Asia Dispute: Underwater Rock

Socotra is under Chinese, South Korean air-defense zones

(Newser) - As China, Japan, and South Korea feud over sea and sky, what's underwater is also a matter of contention. Both China and South Korea lay claim to a submerged rock between the countries—one that's the subject of Korean legend. In English, it's called Socotra Rock. Koreans...

Record-Breaking 'Ship' So Big It's Not a Ship

Shell's Prelude takes to the water as world's largest floating vessel

(Newser) - Picture the Empire State Building. Now picture it floating on its side at sea and you've got a pretty good idea what the world's largest floating vessel looks like. Shell's Prelude—a liquefied natural gas facility—has entered the water in South Korea and at 1,601...

Japan, S. Korea: We Defied China's New Zone, Too

Both countries say they flew into it unannounced

(Newser) - The US may not be the only country to have dipped a toe in China's newly declared air defense zone: Japan and South Korea now say they've both flown planes through it, unannounced, as well. A rep for the Japan government describes its activity as routine "surveillance"...

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