This is pretty crazy! As the article mentions, there are two tours that run to two separate areas of North Korea. We went on the OTHER trip... and I do remember when we stepped like an inch out of the boundaries, we were yelled at. Luckily, we weren't shot.
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A North Korean soldier on Friday shot and killed a South Korean woman at Mt. Keumgang, a popular mountain resort in the communist nation, a government official in the South said.
The 53-year-old woman was shot around 5:30 a.m., according to Kim Ho-nyun, a South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman.
"South Korea deeply regrets that such an incident has happened," Kim said.
The body has been taken to a hospital in the South.
The woman was believed to have been on a walk and went beyond the resort's boundaries when the North Korean soldiers were ordered to shoot, North Korean authorities said, according to Hyundai Asan, the South Korean tour company that books the trips.
The tours to the North have been suspended for the time being.
The resort is part of a tightly controlled and well-marked area along the east coast of the Korean peninsula and one of only two areas South Korean tourists are allowed to travel to in the North.
The South Korean government will conduct a full investigation into the incident and the North Korean authorities are expected to cooperate fully, according to Kim.
The incident occurred on the day South Korean President Lee Myung-bak proposed reopening stalled reconciliation talks with North Korea.
- Gilad
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Paranoid whacked governments shooting old ladies.. isn't that part of the world a nice place, ruled by such wise and compassionate people? At any rate, the entire world seemingly is now becoming a 'nice place' too.. wouldn't doubt that crap like this will be soon be happening here, there and everywhere, as paranoid morons who pretend to be in 'control' start going whack all over.. They can live with it on their conscience, but I doubt those who've let situations like these become so easily possible have any; they are lower than reptiles in this respect... sorry, don't mean such disrespect to repitiles..
I can think of someone who needs to yo relax immediately.
-W-
Died of laughter, W. Classic.
- Gilad
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