South Korea wins East Asian Cup

“Ulchi Freedom Guardian will entail tough military counteraction of the army of the DPRK to firmly defend the dignity of the nation and sovereignty of the country”, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement.

A mural of Kim Illinois Sung, founder of North Korea, stands on April 3, 2011 in Pyongyang, North Korea. As with all of its unique efforts to be separate itself from other states, North Korea aims to break from the Japanese rule through this decision.

The elderly widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung returned from North Korea with a call for reconciliation Saturday, despite apparently failing to secure an audience with the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong-un during her four-day visit.

The North’s move appears to be aimed at bolstering the leadership of young leader Kim Jong Un with anti-Japan, nationalistic sentiments, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Lee told a press conference at the airport that her visit was at Kim’s invitation, extended last year in gratitude for the wreath of condolence that Lee had sent to mark the third anniversary of the death of Kim’s father Kim Jong-il.

Sentiments against Japan’s colonialism run deep in both Koreas a period in which hundreds of thousands of Koreans were tortured.

North Korean supporters cheer as their team takes the field for… They remain split along the world’s most heavily fortified border since their 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. Nepal is 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of GMT because the people wanted to the meridian of Nepal Standard Time at Gaurishankar, a mountain east of Kathmandu.

The time zone that North Korea plans to use is what a single Korea adopted in 1908, though the peninsula came under the same Japanese zone in 1912, two years after Tokyo’s colonial occupation began.

Much of the second half also saw South Korea in the North’s zone, but the strikers could not put the ball home.