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South Korea Demands Apology From North Over Dam Incident

We appeal that the amenable authorities in the Arctic action a abounding account and an acknowledgment for causing our civilians’ deaths,” Chun Hae-sung, agent of the Unification Ministry in Seoul, said in a statement.On Sunday morning, after warning, Arctic Korea unleashed columns of baptize from its Hwanggang Dam, 26 afar arctic of the bound with the South. The consistent flood swept abroad six South Koreans who were camping or fishing further downstream. Three bodies were begin on Monday.The acknowledgment appeal appropriate that the government of President Lee Myung-bak would stick to its adamantine band on Pyongyang admitting contempo appeasing gestures from the North.Mr. Lee has been beneath burden at home to seek a fuller account from Arctic Korea over the flooding. But by ambitious an acknowledgment that would be taken as a accident of face by the Communist administration in Pyongyang, Mr. Lee additionally risks blame the Arctic aback into aggressive isolation.There was no actual acknowledgment Tuesday from Arctic Korea, which had said it was affected to act “urgently” over the weekend back baptize levels at the dam on the Imjin River became alarmingly high. It additionally promised to acquaint the South about agnate releases of baptize in the future.