Word: geumgang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...countries fired at each other. Then, in 2004, an agreement was reached to end the assaults. But since President Lee Myung Bak took office in February, relations with Pyongyang have again deteriorated. In July, when a South Korean housewife was shot during a trip to North Korea's Mount Geumgang, a symbol of reconciliation, South Korea suspended tours there and hasn't allowed its citizens to visit since...
Park Wang ja, a 53-year-old housewife from Seoul, had gotten up extra early to see the sunrise on Friday morning. She was strolling on the beach near the Mount Geumgang tourist resort in North Korea, and she was not alone. Five other tourists had also gotten up early to catch the sunrise from the beach at Mount Geumgang. For South Koreans, it is a special vantage point from which to welcome the day; it lies about 21 miles (34 km) north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has divided the two Koreas for more than 50 years. Park...
...effect abandoning the harder line he had come to office preaching. Lee gave the speech despite the furor that he and his aides knew would follow once news of the killing became public in the South later that afternoon. Lee's speech included no mention of the Mount Geumgang incident...
...will be made even more difficult by the rage Park's murder at Mount Geumgang has stoked in the South. Hill and others in the six-party talks have been steadfast in not letting any outside issue get in the way of a deal on the North's nukes. Japan is still furious over Pyongyang's less-than-full account of the Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and '80s, while members of the Bush Administration remain apoplectic that the North would apparently pay no price for its alleged aid to Syria for a nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed...
| 1 |