In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, center, poses with Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun, left, and Hyun’s daughter Chung Ji-ee, right, on Sunday. [YONHAP] From Times Online:
After months of threats and military provocations, North Korea announced this morning the reopening of joint economic projects with South Korea. But any expectations of an improvement in relations with the isolated dictatorship were lowered when it threatened nuclear attack against South Korean and US forces undertaking a military exercise.
North Korea’s state media announced that it will resume a range of reconciliation activities, which have been suspended over the past year in an atmosphere of increasing tension between the two Koreas. Pyongyang will relax border restrictions on travel to and from the Kaesong Industrial complex, where 40,000 North Koreans are employed by South Korean companies. It will also resume reunions between elderly people separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, which divided the peninsula.
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My Comment: Being threatened with a nuclear strike is no joke .... but for some reason this is not receiving the news coverage that it deserves. I guess North Korea has been screaming "wolf" for so long .... no one believes them anymore.
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