Communists keep close watch on Key

When I saw the headline in the Herald:

Communists keep close watch on Key

my first thought was that the Greens had hired a private detective to follow the PM about 🙂

Instead it was a different sort of communist:

North Korean soldiers watched Prime Minister John Key’s every move as he toured the area between North and South Korea yesterday. …

As Mr Key toured the South Korean side with his family and delegation, North Korean soldiers came down to their side of the line with binoculars to find out what was going on.

South Korean and US soldiers stood puffing their chests on one side and the North Koreans glared from the other.

The DMZ is not the safest place to be – 550 soldiers from the South were killed there between 1953 and 1999. As the recent North Korean sinking of a South Korean ship showed, they are not that stable.