by FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday threatened to attack South Korean loudspeakers that are broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across their shared […]
Tag: DMZ
Across the DMZ: A Reunion Tale Retold on Audio
Pictured above: Imjingang Railroad Bridge, 2014. (Photo courtesy of Jeon Han/Korea.net) by ALEXANDER HYUN Special to charactermedia.com It’s been more than 60 years since Korea officially separated into two states. Politics […]
DMZ Wire Transformed in ‘Piano of Unification’
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korea’s Unification Ministry and Jeil Worldwide Inc. have collaborated to create the “Piano of Unification,” a grand piano constructed with barbed wire […]
North Korean Soldiers Briefly Cross DMZ
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com About 10 North Korean soldiers crossed the military border into South Korea near Cheorwon, Gangwon Province on Saturday morning, but retreated immediately after […]
U.S. Taekwondo Practitioners Plan DMZ Peace Walk
by KARIN CHAN editor@charactermedia.com A group of U.S. taekwondo masters is organizing a peace walk across the demilitarized zone that divides North and South Korea, reports the Voice of America. […]
North Korean Soldier Crosses DMZ to Defect to South
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com A teenaged North Korean soldier walked across the heavily mined Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Monday in a bid to defect to South Korea, […]
Women Activists Cross DMZ Between North and South Korea by Bus
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com International female peace activists crossed the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea on Sunday, calling for an end to the Korean […]
Q&A with Christine Ahn, Co-organizer of Women’s Walk for Peace Across DMZ
Pictured above: Christine Ahn, shown here with Gloria Steinem, at a United Nations news conference on March 11 announcing plans for a walk across the DMZ. (Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Bebeto […]
Women’s Group Gets North Korea’s Approval to Walk Across DMZ
by CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea has decided to support a proposed walk across the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas by prominent women […]
LINK ATTACK: Jamie Chung, Hallyu Beauty Storm, Kim Jong Il’s Former Bodyguard
North Korean Defector: ‘I Was Kim Jong Il’s Bodyguard’ “When Kim Jong Il would arrive in his vehicle, 60- to 70-year old advisors would run away and throw themselves […]
The Korean War, 60 Years and Counting
War and Peace? A photojournalist shares images that capture a 60-year and-still-counting legacy of war. by MARK EDWARD HARRIS July 27, 2013, marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of […]