Union. Eants governmenantigovernmenn nepal, many died. In sport, another 100 meter goal for jamaica, this time in the womens final, details later in the program. Well they looked for some time as if they wouldnt work, marathon talks between north and south korea, finally ending in a agreement, that nearly pushed the two countries into the brink of armed conflict. Reported north korea had expressed regret over a land mine incident that wounded two south korean soldiers. This month, both countrys militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border. Harry fawcett, give us an idea of the importance of this expression of regret and what the south has agreed to do in exchange. Reporter well, it was very important that there was, what President Park geunhye was saying there need to be a clear apology from the north as well as measures to make sure there was no recurrence of the kind of provocation that south korea terms this has been. What there was in terms of the text
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