History & Heroes Of the Korean DMZ: 1953 to Today
“The crossing marked the second embarrassing breach for the South Korean military’s border security in recent months. In November, another North Korean man, a former gymnast, crawled over the border fence and was not captured until he was half a mile south of the border. The military later said that sensors supposed to trigger alarms…
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SEOUL, Dec. 21, 2016 (UPI) — An outbreak of diarrhea that soldiers are cynically describing as a “gift from Kim Jong Un” is affecting a North Korean unit of border guards, sources in the country say. Multiple soldiers have fallen ill after consuming new food that was expressly supplied for border guards by the general…
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Secretary of State Clinton joked about a failed North Korean missile test after a senior aide facetiously suggested they send North Korea’s dictator a signed picture from the movie “Failure to Launch.” The State Department team may have needed a laugh at the time, since the launch attempt days earlier in April 2012 had generated…