North Korea
The Crisis on the Korean Peninsula and Its Surprising Resolution
Stephan Haggard Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 7:02 AM
Seoul awoke yesterday to news of the agreement reached early in the morning between North and South Korea to calm down the current tensions. The crisis began with an August 4 mine attack that left two South Korean soliders severely maimed and included the first live-fire exchange across the DMZ in a long time. In an odd role reversal, the South Korean Yonhap news agency posted the English-language version of the agreement released by the North Korean news agency KCNA: