Direct flights between the two countries, who remain technically at war, are extremely rare. Pak’s placement in the roll call indicates he is the North Korea defense chief, according to Yonhap.
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“We will watch the South’s attitude”.
The committee, which was involved in organising Lee’s trip, said the proposal for a direct flight was made because the highway linking the border city of Kaesong to Pyongyang was being repaired.
Lee has visited the North three times – the last occasion being to pay her respects following the death of former leader Kim Jong-Il in December 2011.
“If you are a Korean citizen, you are equal under Korean law”, Kim, 50, told reporters outside the court.
“If the South keeps holding them against their will, we would take stern countermeasures”, the North’s Red Cross chief Kang Su-Rin was quoted as saying by Pyongyang’s official website, Uriminzokkiri.
Since then, there have been “tit-for-tat” exchanges between the two over South Korea’s joint military exercises with the United States, the South’s longstanding May 24 sanctions, and the North’s nuclear and missile programs.
Seoul, July 8 (IANS): South Korea will grant asylum to three North Koreans rescued from the sea, who requested to stay back in the country, the South Korean ministry of unification said on Wednesday.
Seoul repatriated two North Korean fishermen rescued off the east coast in February and five others last month after investigators confirmed their wish to return home.
Kim is the first South Korean show business personality to get married to a same sex partner and the second ever to come out openly to say he was gay. In that sense, we do not see why Lee could not serve as a special envoy for President Park Geun-hye, and carry either a letter or a verbal message to the current North Korean leader.
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“Lack of rain reduces access to clean water and undermines effective hygiene, putting children’s lives at risk”, Unicef regional director Daniel Toole said.
