Doualy Xaykaothao

Along Korea's DMZ, No Sign That Tensions Are Easing

Doualy Xaykaothao — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:34:00 +0000

Cold winds blow through pine trees and across nearby mountains. On the horizon are guard posts and cameras. There's little movement, except for wildlife.

U.S. Lt. Col. Ed Taylor, lives and works on the Korean armistice line that has divided North and South for almost six decades. He even sleeps in a bed right next to North Korea.

"I cannot compare it to anything I've ever done. And I say that with 23 years in the Army and two deployments to Iraq," Taylor says.

He commands the only combined U.S. and South Korean battalion on the Korean Peninsula.

For Kids In Japan, Adjusting To A Changed World

Doualy Xaykaothao — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Teacher Dave Rowlands is talking to his students in a kindergarten class at Imagine Japan, an English-language school in the Miyagi Prefecture of Sendai City. The school is just a short walk from pre-fabricated homes built for families who lost more than just property in the earthquake and tsunami last year.

"What came after the earthquake, was what?" Rowlands asks. "A tidal wave. In Japanese, what do we say? Or in English, actually, tsunami is now used around the world in many languages. Tsunami.

With Radiation, Doubt Grows In Fukushima Farms

Doualy Xaykaothao — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:01:00 +0000

The mountain village of Kawauchi lies partly inside the area deemed unsafe because of high levels of radiation in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. Chiharu Kubota uses a high-pressure water gun to hose down buildings there.

Radiation is still leaking from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which suffered multiple meltdowns immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami.

'Nothing Is Better'

Kubota has washed about 138 homes and is starting to see people return to Kawauchi.

North Korean Workers Grieve Kim Jong Il's Death

Doualy Xaykaothao — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:48:00 +0000

The Kaesong Industrial Complex is a joint North Korea and South Korea experiment. Every day hundreds of workers from South Korea go to work in North Korea, and thousands of workers from North Korea go to jobs in South Korean factories. Reporter Doualy Xaykaothao has more on what the atmosphere was like there after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died.

South Koreans Apathetic About The North

Doualy Xaykaothao — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

South Korea's president has warned North Korea that his country will respond strongly to any North Korean provocations — but he also said North-South relations could improve if Pyongyang halts its nuclear weapons program. However many people in the South Korean capital seem apathetic about the power transition in the North — and even future relations between the two Koreas.