Demilitarized Zone

The news rarely reports the comings and goings of ordinary people living regular lives, and yet it’s those people who make up the mass majority of the earth.  The farmer in north the northern Thai countryside, the truck driver in Cairo or the gas station attendant in Arizona–they are the fabric of society, subject to […]

A North Korean soldier defected on Tuesday across the heavily mined Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) border to South Korea, the South’s military said, amid high tension over the North’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons.   Read the whole story from Reuters.

The South Korean military fired warning shots at an unidentified aircraft believed to be a drone seen flying over the demilitarized zone separating them from the aggressive North Korean regime to their north. Although the South Korean military was not able to identify the aircraft, more than 90 rounds were fired at it from an […]

The 14-minute broadcast of two sets of numbers by a female voice appears to have been the work of the Voice of Korea (formerly Radio Pyongyang), a North Korean radio propaganda station that broadcasts accolades of the Kim family.