S. Korean Tourist Is Shot Dead In North, (Washington Post)…Blaine Harden, July 12, 2008
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A North Korean soldier shot dead a middle-aged South Korean housewife Friday after she walked into a restricted area near a mountain resort inside the communist North.
The killing of the 53-year-old tourist — who reportedly was shot twice from behind, in the chest and the left hip —
Since Mount Kumgang was opened to outsiders in 1998, about 1.9 million people, nearly all of them South Koreans, have visited the resort on the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. It is one of two North Korean locations that are open — under tight rules — for foreign visits.
As of Friday morning, there were 1,200 to 1,300 tourists at the resort. They were to start leaving Friday night and would all be gone by Sunday, Hyundai Asan told news agencies. The other tourist operation in North Korea — at the former capital city Kaesong just north of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two states — was not affected by Friday’s shooting and will remain open, according to Hyundai Asan.
North Korea has come to depend on South Korean aid, especially fertilizer, to prop up a centralized farming system that almost always fails to produce enough food to feed the country’s 23 million people.
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