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Monster storm feared to worsen North Korea's food crisis

Typhoon Hinnamnor, formed in ocean waters far southeast of Korea on Aug. 28, has been approaching from the south. As of 8:00 p.m. on Monday, it was 140 kilometers off Seogwipo in s...

The North Korean man who was captured near the inter-Korean border last week was caught on South Korean military surveillance cameras ten times but soldiers still failed to notice him. According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man reached the shore near the Unification Observatory in Goseong at around 1:05AM last Tuesday. He then passed through a hidden drainage tunnel under the heavily fortified border fence. At around 1:40 AM the man started moving south going some five kilometers along the country's east coast. He did all this undetected until at around 4:12AM one of the m...

By JOSEPH DITZLER AND YOO KYONG CHANG | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 16, 2021 South Korea’s military is scrutinizing how a presumed North Korean defector managed to get through a seaside drain and into the country early Tuesday, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The man, intercepted at 7:20 a.m. by South Korean troops inside the civilian control line just south of the Demilitarized Zone, apparently swam some part of the way from North Korea in a dive suit before passing through a drain south of the border, according to a translated, text-message update from the joint chief...

Military slammed for failing again to detect border crossing by North Korean Posted : 2021-02-17 16:48 Updated : 2021-02-18 09:17 A road to a checkpoint inside an area south of the Civilian Control Line in the east coast border town of Goseong, Gangwon Province, is empty, Tuesday, after entry was restricted following a North Korean man's crossing into South Korea earlier in the day. / Yonhap By Kang Seung-woo The military finds itself in the hot seat again following the capture of a North Korean, Tuesday, who swam across the eastern maritime border undetected. Making the situation worse f...