The big question is if this was a recently planted mine by North Korea or one that has been sitting there for many years. It will be interesting to see if we ever get an answer to that question:

An undetonated land mine was spotted at the site of last week’s explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), according to military sources Monday, citing initial statements from soldiers involved in the blast.

The statement was obtained as the military is working to determine the exact cause of last Monday’s blast that occurred south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) inside the DMZ separating the two Koreas. Two South Korean soldiers were severely wounded, with a third sustaining minor injuries.

The incident, which involved two separate explosions, is suspected of having been triggered by North Korean land mines.

Yonhap

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It looks like the water crisis on Camp Humphreys from this past weekend is nearly over:

Schools were closed and some food services were unavailable Monday at America’s largest overseas military base as crews continued repressurizing water lines following a widespread weekend outage. Water was available throughout the installation, but officials were bringing services back gradually to avoid straining the recovering system, said U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys spokesman Jeff Nagan. “There is nobody without water that we’re aware of in any of our towers or barracks, or any of our facilities,” he told Stars and Stripes by phone Monday.

“We’re just repressurizing the lines.” Officials were considering whether to reopen food services gradually or all at once, Nagan said. Restaurants and coffee shops serving on Monday included Burger King, Starbucks and Dunkin’ at the Downtown Shopping Center; Qdoba, Popeye’s and Starbucks at the Sentry Mini-Mall; and Subway at the Family Mini-Mall, according to a post that day on the base’s Facebook page “It’s a slow and deliberate process, and we want to make sure we are not putting any unnecessary strain on our water system,” he said.

Stars and Stripes

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It looks like even more chipmaking capacity may be coming to the U.S.:

SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the company’s advanced HBM packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Aug. 27, where SK hynix plans to begin producing “Made in USA” HBM from the second half of 2029. (SK hynix)

“I think we need to build a factory in the United States. If possible, I believe we should build it,” SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said in July, describing the “enormous pressure” from customers and governments to supply more memory chips. SK hynix was already preparing a US production base, but only for the later stages of making its most valuable artificial intelligence memory.

Its more than $4 billion Indiana plant, which broke ground last month, will receive advanced DRAM wafers made in South Korea and package and turn them into high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, from 2029. The memory chips themselves will still be fabricated in Korea.

The question now is whether SK hynix is willing to move part of the chipmaking itself to the US. Reuters reported Sept. 16 that SK hynix was discussing a bigger step, either leasing part of Intel’s Ohio complex to produce memory chips or forming a venture with Intel and major cloud companies seeking secure supplies. Two days later, Solidigm, SK hynix’s US NAND subsidiary, was reported to be considering a separate NAND plant in the US.

Korea Herald

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I do have to wonder what Zelensky was trying to accomplish with this disclosure?:

South Korea’s presidential office demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to ‌South Korea and then falsely denying that the two sides had agreed to keep the move confidential.

“The ‌presidential office expresses strong regret over Ukraine’s unilateral disclosure and its subsequent false announcement that there had not been a non-disclosure agreement,” Seong Ghi-hong, senior presidential secretary for public relations, said in a statement released on Sunday.

Reuters

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For these POWs going back to North Korea was likely not an option since they were expected to die in combat and would probably face labor camp if they returned after being captured:

Ukraine has recently sent two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

“Recently, we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea,” Zelenskyy said during his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (U.S. time), referring to South Korea by its official name.

Two North Korean soldiers were captured by Ukrainian forces in early 2025 after being deployed to Russia’s Kursk region in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine. They have reportedly expressed their desire to come to South Korea.

Yonhap

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