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South Korea is seeking to formally declare North Korea's recent border activities as a violation of the Armistice Agreement following a joint investigation with the U.N. Command (UNC), the defense ministry said Wednesday. The move comes as Seoul is weighing countermeasures after concluding that land mines deliberately planted by North Korea on the South's side of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) were the cause of the Sept. 21 blast that left three South Korean soldiers wounded, two of them seriously. North Korea's apparent border intrusion and mine-laying activities south of the MDL clearly constitute violations of the ceasefire agreement that halted the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul said earlier. "Following a joint investigation with the UNC into North Korea's MDL incursions, we plan to formalize its armistice violations and strongly demand an immediate halt to border breaches and to restore the DMZ to its original state," the ministry said in a document submitted to lawmakers ahead of an annual parliamentary audit. "Concurrently, we are pushing for inter-Korean military talks to prevent

North Korea on Wednesday defended Beijing's "One China" policy while accusing the United States of supporting Taiwan independence and "escalating" tension in the region. The criticism came in an article titled "U.S. Is Acting Rashly" by international affairs analyst Kim Myong-chol, carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The U.S. has systematically destroyed regional stability and persistently escalated the situation under the pretext of 'opposing unilateral attempt at change of phenomenon' in the Taiwan Strait," Kim wrote. Referring to the recent delivery of a U.S. fighter jet to Taiwan, Kim said, "This is nothing but a shameless act of planting a bomb at the gate of other's house and asserting that the bomb is for ensuring the security of the house." He claimed munitions supplied by the U.S. to Taiwan through overseas arms sales over the past decade alone amounted to more than $39 billion. "The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China, so how to settle it is entirely the affair of the Chinese people, and no outside forces have the right to interfere in it," he said. Kim war

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday pledged to deepen his country's strategic partnership with Russia in a birthday letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pyongyang's state media reported. "I am pleased to have good friendship with you and open up a new chapter for the development of the relations between our two countries," Kim wrote, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "It is the steadfast policy of the DPRK government and my unshakable option to attach importance to the comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance forged with the fraternal Russian Federation and to steadily expand and develop the joint work," he said. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name. Kim also pledged his "invariable support" for Putin and Russia. He said he was convinced that "the Russian people's sacred war of justice" to defend their country's "sovereignty, security interests and territorial integrity" would end in victory. Kim stressed his personal bond with Putin, opening the letter with "my dearest friend" and closing with "I

In giving comfort to anti-immigration rhetoric we are turning our backs on a wealthy legacy of eminent Australians who have brought a tireless entrepreneurial energy.

Drivers are to be banned from parking in the cobbled heart of a Kent town centre after years of complaints from businesses and shoppers.

Two strangers are said to have thrown laughing gas canisters at a mum-of-two’s car in a fourth attack in two months.

A school in one of Kent’s most deprived areas has been warned it could be moved to another trust - as it requires “significant improvement”.

A couple are hoping to transform one of a town’s oldest buildings into a new business venture.

A pensioner who was charged with the attempted murder of her husband no longer faces prosecution.

Forrestania Resources has defined a maiden 223,300-ounce gold resource at its Tampia project near Merredin in WA, bolstering its new Westonia hub-and-spoke processing strategy.

Mourners gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney’s CBD to farewell Mia Lay, 20, who died in a car crash.