Friday 23 April 2010


NORTH KOREA SEIZES PART OF RESORT OPERATED WITH THE SOUTH

Choe Sang-hun

The New York Times, April 23, 2010

SEOUL — North Korea confiscated five South Korean-owned facilities at a jointly operated mountain resort on Friday, while calling the president of South Korea a “traitor” and accusing him of defaming the North’s most important holiday.

The unilateral seizures and harsh comments were indicative of the tensions that have been rising between the two Koreas since a South Korean warship sank in a mysterious explosion on March 26.

Although he has not yet blamed the North for the sinking, and while vowing to find the cause of the incident, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea has aired unusually harsh criticisms of the Pyongyang regime amid a growing suspicion in the South that the ship may have been hit by a North Korean torpedo.

North Korea has denied any involvement in the sinking, which killed 39 South Korean sailors. Seven seamen are still missing and presumed dead.

(...) [artículo aquí]

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