Mes: agosto 2019

(AP) SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s navy fired warning shots Friday toward North Korean fishing boats that crossed a disputed maritime boundary, but the shots didn’t hit the fishing boats, which retreated, a South Korean official said. No North Korean navy ships were involved in the incident along a tense western sea boundary that the North has long refused to recognize, an official with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, speaking anonymously because of office policy. Violence often erupts in the seafood rich Yellow Sea waters claimed by both countries. Boats routinely jostle for position during crab-catching season, 바카라 가입머니 and three deadly naval clashes since 1999 have taken a few dozen lives. The disputed sea boundary is not clearly marked, and incursions by North Korean military and fishing boats are not unusual. Russia writes off most North Korean debtNew U.S. missile defense site slated for JapanHints of reform in North Korea Just last week North Korean fishing boats crossed the boundary but retreated soon after being warned by the South. Seoul says North Korean fishing boats also crossed the boundary in April. The Korean War ended nearly 60 years ago with a truce, not with a peace treaty, so the U.S.-led U.N. Command divided the Yellow Sea without Pyongyang’s consent. The boundary favored South Korea, cutting North Korea off from rich fishing waters and boxing in...

“(It’s) partly because public opinion has really shifted on the war, so there might be a marketing aspect to that,” says Ron Eyerman, a professor of sociology at Yale, about the sudden flood of Iraq-themed or related films. “But of course it takes a long time to make a film, so you’re not going to watch public opinion polls and then start to make a film. The timing of that just doesn’t work.” Films that have already played include Paul Haggis’ “In The Valley of Elah,” about a retired veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) trying to find out why his son was brutally murdered after shipping back from Iraq, and “The Kingdom,” a look at homegrown terrorism in Saudi Arabia dressed in the clothes of an action thriller. More recently, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep top-lined “Rendition,” about a woman whose Arab-American husband is seized and tortured by the U.S. government. The documentary “No End in Sight,” a critical analysis of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq, surfaced on DVD last month after a limited theatrical run. Still to come is director and star Robert Redford’s “Lions for Lambs” (Nov. 9), which tells three stories about war, patriotism, and the media build-up to the invasion; Brian de Palma’s reportedly brutal “Redacted” (Nov. 16), which uses video-cam footage for an ultra-realistic take on the true story of U.S. soldiers who raped...