Relations between North and South Korea continue to worsen after the killing of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean soldier on Friday.
The woman was gunned down when she apparently wandered into a North Korean military area near to a tourist resort, just a few kilometres north of the heavily fortified border. The South said the killing was "unimaginable" and should never South Korean 'shot dead in North' ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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