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(CNN) – The South Korean military has warned North Korea of a “harsh” response to landmine blasts that seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers last week in the demilitarized zone.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has denied a South Korean news report that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may visit North Korea for talks with leader Kim Jong Un.

But the defence ministry said further tests had confirmed “they were North Korean land mines – planted with the intention to kill”.

“One lost both legs in the first blast, involving two mines”, the newspaper notes, “The other soldier lost one leg in a second explosion as he tried to help his wounded colleague to safety”.

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The widow of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung left for North Korea under tight security Wednesday, after an anti-Pyongyang group had threatened to blow up her plane.

What makes this choice interesting is that Windows 10 isn’t specifically localized for North Korea’s dialect of Korean (which is different from that used in the South, similar to the difference between American and British English) and the operating system’s...

“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.

The clocks are to be turned back 30 minutes, which will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind both South Korea and Japan, which are at GMT+9:00.

Since then, Japan, North Korea and South Korea have run on the same local time – nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Back in 2007, Venezuela also decided to turn its clocks to use the daytime more effectively.

In three days the country will mark the 70th anniversary of the second atomic bomb, dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

South Korea hopes to reconnect the line and link it to Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway, an ambitious project, which would cut logistics costs for trade with Europe.

There are telephones on the South Korean side for defectors from the impoverished and reclusive North to call seeking help, although it was not immediately clear if Tuesday’s incident involved North Korea.

As North Korea considered deal as start of incursion, having own nuclear program rejected negotiating with such deal.