SEOUL – Last month, North and South Korea narrowly avoided a catastrophic military confrontation. After 40 hours of strenuous negotiations, the South agreed to stop loudspeaker broadcasts into the demilitarized zone between the two countries, in exchange for the North expressing “regret” for the South Korean soldiers killed by a landmine blast in the DMZ three weeks earlier.
首尔—上个月，朝鲜和韩国勉强避免了灾难性军事冲突。在经过40小时的紧张谈判后，韩国同意停止在两国之间的非军事区进行广播喊话，作为交换，朝鲜对三周前韩国士兵因在非军事区踩雷丧生表示“遗憾”。