Korean Demilitarized Zone

Fact or fiction.

But the bottom line, we'll take a look at not only this St. Louisan, but other American soldiers who defected across the DMZ to go to North Korea.

And, of course, reminding you again, when this hour concludes, we'll be followed by Newstalk STL election coverage.

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Our election coverage will begin at 7 o'clock, but before that, our story behind the story.

We're going back to when a St. Louis Army private crossed the DMZ, defecting to North Korea.

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But we were right at the place where that was most heavily sprayed.

The DMZ was the most heavily defoliated place on the face of this earth ever in the history of this earth.

And all of the runoff from the DMZ came down into the river that we patrolled and took baths in and swam in and everything.

We had no idea what was in that river that still affects most of us to this day.

Well, Bill, I'm going to salute you.

Yeah.

Did I ever tell you about the time I went to the TMZ? There was a guy holding his drink and talking about celebrities a lot.

Hannah, can you just take over all

of

I know my way around Brighton.

Clearly, I need to be dropped into the Korean DMZ to sort out the North Korean-South Korean conflict.

Maybe we shouldn't put

bankers in Britain's officer corps in a moment of crisis.

Mertz expressed support for Korea's efforts to resume dialogue and build a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

And he is scheduled to visit the DMZ today.

He's also invited Lee to A digital summit in Berlin that's happening next year and called for greater cooperation in AI and other innovative industries.

The meeting was their third summit and the first bilateral visit to Korea by a German chancellor in three years.

Now, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles flew about 250 kilometers and that Korea and the U.S. are analyzing their exact specifications.

The military said the launches had been closely monitored from the preparation stage and the missiles were detected and tracked immediately after launch.

so the weapons are believed to have been 600 millimeter kn-25 multiple rocket launchers which north korea says can carry tactical nuclear warheads the military is also looking into whether north korea conducted a broader drill combining ballistic missiles with cruise missiles drones or conventional rocket artillery The launches came days after Seoul proposed inter-Korean military talks to reduce the risk of accidental clashes near the DMZ.

The proposal called for both sides to confirm the location of the military demarcation line, restore military communication lines, and discuss ways to prevent clashes near the border.

So we...

they had to call out extra people from the Army's 2nd Division up in the DMZ area to come down to provide security for us.

Did you

work with a lot of South Koreans at that