# DMZ

This year

2023

# DMZ

'Get him!': Witness recalls US soldier's dash across border North Korea

Private Second Class Travis King crossed the border into North Korea this week.

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Jul 21st 2023, 4:55 PM

All time

# DMZ

'There's no sheik, no Chinese investors': Bray Wanderers' housing plan for Carlisle Grounds

Martin O’Connor doesn’t regret a controversial statement comparing Wicklow to North Korea.

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Aug 5th 2017, 9:14 AM

# stay away

South Korea fires warning shots at North after drone peeps over border

The unidentified aerial vehicle flew across the border and encroached into South Korean territory by some “tens of metres”, the defence ministry said.

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Jan 13th 2016, 8:24 AM

# come on in

This North Korean soldier found a very simple (but dangerous) way to defect

He walked into South Korea.

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Jun 15th 2015, 4:57 PM

# Free

85-year-old American granddad released from North Korea

Merrill Newman had been visiting Pyongyang as a tourist when he was accused by the North Korean goverment of committing a number of crimes.

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Dec 7th 2013, 12:22 PM

# North Korea

North Korea says its rockets can hit the US, analysts say it's bluster

The secretive state’s latest public comment came in response to the announcement of a new deal between South Korea and the US to triple the range of its missiles.

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Oct 9th 2012, 9:51 AM

# Korea

Leaflet bombs: North Korea drops propaganda pamphlets on the South

South Korean soldiers were reported to have collected thousands of leaflets floated by the North across the frontier as relations worsen between the two countries still technically at war.

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Jul 26th 2012, 10:49 AM