Adele Ferguson - Ship sinking shows hostility still at 38th parallel

IT’S BEEN A LONG time since I visited the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea and South Korea, and the way things are going it may be a lot longer before any journalists are allowed back in.

The hostility between the two Koreas just made the news again with the sinking of a South Korean naval ship near their maritime border on the Yellow Sea. South Korea doesn’t rule out the renewal of North Korean skullduggery but suggests it could have been an old mine left over from the Korean War when the North mined those waters. That didn’t stop the North from warning the United States and South Korea...