{"id":4831,"date":"2009-06-02T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:48:27","slug":"world-links-south-korea-sends-ships-to-border-china-blocks-access-to-twitter-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links-south-korea-sends-ships-to-border-china-blocks-access-to-twitter-ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary\/4831\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: South Korea Sends Ships to Border, China Blocks Access to Twitter Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2009\/06\/116_46161.html\" target=\"_blank\">moves a destroyer, frigate and highly sophisticated patrol boat<\/a> to its sea border with North Korea and places its sailors on high alert following rising tensions caused by North Korea&#8217;s May 25th nuclear test. <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/forumy\/2009\/06\/two-koreas-armistice-and-boundary.php\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea announced<\/a> last week that it is no longer bound to the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong-il designates his twenty-six year old youngest son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/01\/AR2009060103750.html?wprss=rss_world\/wires\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Jong-un as successor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/jun\/02\/twitter-china\" target=\"_blank\">blocks access to Twitter<\/a>, Flickr and other Internet sites two days prior to the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen protests in which hundreds of students were shot and killed. Chinese agents also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/03\/world\/asia\/03china.html?ref=global-home\" target=\"_blank\">detain noted Chinese dissident Wu Gaoxing<\/a> after he complains about the treatment of former political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20090602-air-france-447-brazil-search-metal-debris-atlantic-ocean\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian Air Force finds debris<\/a> including plane seats in the Atlantic near where Air France flight 447 is thought to have gone down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/news\/pakistan\/jamat-ud-dawa+chief+hafiz+saeed+released-ts-01\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan releases the founder<\/a> of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group India holds partially responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 last November.<\/p>\n<p>Somali government forces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE5513U420090602\" target=\"_blank\">drive Islamist insurgents<\/a> from two districts in Mogadishu as renewed fighting kills dozens. 70,000 have been displaced since the fighting started.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll among miners killed while illegally extracting gold from a South African mining company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/article\/2009-06-02-illegal-miners-asked-for-body-bags-harmony-says\" target=\"_blank\">rises to 61<\/a>. 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