SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed several rounds across the world’s most heavily armed border and threatened to take further action unless Seoul ends its loudspeaker broadcasts. The North was backing up an earlier threat to attack South Korean border loudspeakers that, […]
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North Korean Internet access goes offline
WASHINGTON — North Korea’s access to the Internet has been hit with outages and is offline today, according to a network-monitoring company, days after the U.S. government accused the country of hacking into Sony Corp.’s files. North Korea, which has four official networks connecting the country to the Internet — all of which route through […]
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2 Americans held in North Korea whisked back home
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Two Americans released from captivity in North Korea returned to the United States Saturday night, landing at a Washington state military base after their departure was secured through a secret mission to the reclusive Communist country by the top U.S. intelligence official. Matthew Miller of Bakersfield, Calif., and Kenneth Bae […]
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Austin Bay: South Korea will no longer just take it
No one died on March 31st when first North Korean and then retaliating South Korean artillery units fired some 800 rockets and shells into disputed boundary waters along the peninsula’s western coast. The absence of human fatalities is welcome news. So is the South’s tit-for-tat firepower display. For the last two years South Korean leaders […]
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Korean War veterans reunite in Peru
PERU — During a harrowing firefight atop a mountain in North Korea 62 years ago, two Maine buddies saw each other for the last time. Or so they thought. Glen Tompkins of Peru was a radio operator with the Army’s 7th Infantry Division and Donn Chadbourne of Wells was an Army medic with the 2nd […]