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While North Korean television depicted women in colorful traditional garb welcoming Steinem and the other activists along a main street in Pyongyang, hundreds of South Koreans reportedly accused the activists of “flattering Kim Jong-un” and promoting a “fake peace.” These protesters said the activists had allowed themselves to be used as propaganda by North Korea.

The Korea Times reports on a controversy involving South Korea’s ambassador to Libya, a story which highlights the danger of operating in that war-torn country.

Islamic militants fired upon the South Korean embassy in Tripoli, Libya on Sunday, resulting in the death of two base guards, South Korean and Libyan officials have confirmed. In a separate attack on early Monday morning, ISIS-linked jihadis bombed Morocco’s Embassy in Tripoli.

(Reuters) – North Korea has declared a no-sail zone for its ships off its east coast, South Korean media reported on Monday, suggesting more missile launches are possible before the U.S. defense chief visits Seoul this week.

AFP reports that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress in April, making him the first prime minister of Japan to deliver such an address. The event is to come at the end of a visit in April focused on “deepening trade and military ties,” although there is speculation he will also cover the “evils and horrors” of Japan’s history, as he did during a speech to the Australian Parliament last July.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un took time on March 8 to celebrate International Women’s Day with speeches and public events, handing out makeup to a crowd of pilots as gifts for their wives.

American Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert has been released from the hospital Tuesday after a violent knife attack by a pro-North Korean nationalist. During his stay in the hospital, Lippert received a near-universal outpouring of support from South Koreans grateful for the U.S. partnership–support The New York Times claims, based on the words of two bloggers, “has provoked a backlash” among leftist South Koreans.

The North Korean government wasted no time celebrating the act of terrorist Kim Ki Jong, who assaulted U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert in Seoul yesterday with what is being described as a “fruit knife.” North Korean state-run Korean Central News Agency declared the attack “just punishment for U.S. warmongers.”

South Korean media say U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert has been attacked while giving a lecture and taken to a hospital for treatment.

North Korean refugees who choose to speak of the horrors of living within the communist nation face violent threats to them and their families still trapped inside. Many choose to speak anyway, however, and in South Korea they are becoming increasingly common staples in news and entertainment programming.

In the wake of two shootings that left a total of eight people dead–including the gunmen–South Korean officials are considering an all-out ban on storage of firearms in homes and mulling the placement of a GPS monitor on every firearm in the country.

On February 25, an unnamed gunman shot and killed three people in Sejong City, South Korea, despite the country’s strict gun control regulations.

Nineteen American historians have signed a letter condemning the government of Japan for demanding that textbook publisher McGraw Hill remove references to “comfort women” from a book that references Japanese atrocities during World War II.

A South Korean government source told The Korea Herald the Indonesian government will invite North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un to the Bandung Conference in April.

A South Korean teen and known ISIS sympathizer is believed to have defected from his country to join the Islamic militant group after being declared missing in Turkey and following several postings on social media expressing his interest in joining the terrorist organization. If “Kim” has, in fact, joined ISIS, he will be the first person from South Korea to have done so.

SINUI ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — He ran the first chance he got.

A North Korean defector turned South Korean-activist announced on Wednesday that he is planning to launch approximately 100,000 balloons carrying copies of the controversial film The Interview into North Korea by air. The controversial film unveils a covert plan to

South Korea’s government-run hydroelectric and nuclear power company was threatened by an enigmatic group of hackers last week, at the same time the North Korean government was threatening to attack the United States and its allies for daring to suggest