By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and the United States will begin their annual joint military drills on Monday, South Korea s Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). South Korea and the United States regularly stage military exercises, mainly in the spring and summer, but North Korea has for decades reacted angrily, calling them a rehearsal for war. The exercises followed last week s preliminary drills and will continue for nine days, Yonhap said, citing the JCS. The JCS and Seoul s defence ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. A day after the allies kicked off preliminary training, North Korea did not answer routine calls on inter-Korean hotlines which had only just been reactivated after the North severed them a year ago amid strained ties. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accused the South of perfidious behaviour for going ahead with the exercises. (Reporting by Hy
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By Andre Paultre and Kate Chappell PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on Saturday and felt the ground begin to shake beneath her feet, the 62-year-old Haitian was flooded by terrifying memories of the earthquake a decade ago that devastated her hometown. For many in the poor Caribbean nation, Saturday s major quake - which killed more than 300 people and left hundreds injured - revived the trauma of the Jan. 12, 2010 temblor from which the country was still reeling. The neighbors, I saw them running and running. I said ‘What’s wrong?’ They said ‘Earthquake!’ and I rushed to the front door, Jean-Baptiste said. All of a sudden, I had all those images of January 12 coming to my mind and I felt really, really scared. Her neighborhood of Delmas, in the southern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, was tossed by Saturday s quake, whose epicenter was some 150 km (90 miles) to the west of the capital. But in 2010, the tremor struck
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