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China’s foreign ministry voiced its opposition to Saturday’s visits in a statement which said they demonstrated “Japan’s erroneous attitudes toward the historical issues”.

But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations “be predestined to apologize”.

Abe, the grandson of a wartime cabinet minister, himself did not visit the shrine, which honours 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with millions of war dead.

North Korea threatened Saturday to attack its southern neighbor after activists launched helium balloons carrying anti-Pyongang leaflets.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama and apologize for Japan’s past aggression, however, those that had waited with bated breath for Abe’s statement on Friday, a day before the...

South Korea has ramped up border security in the wake of the blasts and – after a break of more than a decade – resumed the broadcast of propaganda messages into the North, using batteries of powerful loudspeakers set up at several sites along the border.

South Korean officials said on Monday North Korean intruders planted three land mines on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone – including one that exploded last Tuesday injuring two soldiers.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye will travel to Washington for an October 16 summit meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss issues including North Korea’s nuclear program, South Korea said on Thursday.

South Korea has resume propoganda broadcasts across its border with the North, in retaliation for an alleged land mine attack.

A Cheong Wa Dae spokesman said Obama re-invited Park to Washington.

AFP, citing an anonymous source who spoke to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, says that Choe Yong-gon expressed concern at Kim’s forestry policies.

(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.

“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”.

The builder’s statement also pointed out that the ISS overvalued Samsung C&T in its report.

Egyptian authorities have detected the first case of a unsafe SARS-like virus in the country, the state news agency said Saturday.