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I'm back, happy to be with you for this Tuesday edition of CNN Student News and I want to thank Tommy for filling in for me. Today we're going to start with an ending. North Korea is calling off the truce1 that stopped the Korean War. The conflict involved North Korea and China,fighting against South Korea and the U.S.It ended in 1953 with an armistice2; we covered the details on the war and the armistice. Plus the ongoing3 tension between North and South Korea in our show on March 6th, you can find that in our online archives.
What's happening now is that North Korea says that truce is invalid4; it's backing out of it, what does that mean? we don't really know yet. We know that North Korea is angry about new punishments from the United Nations over the North's controversial nuclear program. We know North Koreais angry about military drills that the U.S.and South Korea are running right now. After the announcement about the truce, South Korea try calling the North on a hotline that's set up between the two. The North didn't answer.
Next today, we're moving over to Japan as that nation remembers a tragic5 anniversary this week. Monday was filled withceremonies, services and a moment of silent. Exactly two years ago when earthquake struck, it was the largest one ever to hit the Island Nation. Andthe quake created tsunami6, a giant ocean wave, the two combined to cause massive amounts of damage, nearly 16,000 people died. The tsunami led to ameltdown at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear power plant. Crews have been working on the plant ever since, but officials say it can take as much as 40 years tocompletely clean up the area and decontaminate it. The effects of the quake and tsunami spread far beyond Japan.This animation7 shows how huge amounts of debris8 were pulled out into the Pacific Ocean. Kyung Lah explains why some of it is showing up.
Slamming the shores of one of Hawaii's most remote beaches, debris, big and small,covering every inch of the Kamilo Beach coastline, theforeign markings tell where some of it comes from.
Hawaii Wildlife Fund's Megan Lam son has seen debris from Japan hit at a growing rates since fall. Like a refrigerator with Japanese on the temperature dial, large buoys10, even an intact fishing boat from Japan. Sucked into the Pacific on that horrifying11 day two years ago, traveling through the Pacific, volunteers like HWF had been fighting the already big problem of marine12 debris. Only made worse to the 1.5 million tons of floating tsunamidebris.
It's disheartening to come out here and see all these marine debris in this area that's otherwise so remote, debris that'swashing up from other countries.
So the debris is washing up onshore, it's also collecting out in the water. The areas outlined in red are called gyres,these are currents out in the ocean, and because of way they work, things that float into them kind of get trapped there. That includes debris from the Japan tsunami,scientists are finding that trash, especially plastic inside fish and birds out in the Pacific.
We're going to look at the impact on wildlife,but heads up to teachers. This report involves some shots of dissection13, so you probably want to preview it before showing it to your class, once again, hereis Kyung Lah.
Look at what's inside this albatross of seabird, found dead, plastics filled its body.
"So little fat."
David Hyrenbach's teams are researching the alarming rate of debris in the birds.
"So here you see."
"Wow, it is filled with plastic."
"Yes"
This is the stomach of a two months old albatross.
"Is that part of a drain?"
"Maybe, oh, it's a brush, look at that, you see."
About 80% of the baby birds stomach is indigestible plastic, that this, by its parents who confused it for food.Morally, this is terrible, how is this possible, right? I mean, majestic,far-ranging beautiful birds, right? In a pristine14 place of the North Pacific and then you open them up and this is, you know, what you find.
Hyrenbach says every single bird he's opened up had some sort of plastic, some larger ones, like these toys, and lighters15 in the adult bird.
A disaster still in the making, now widening its reach.
Environmental activists16 here say that there is nothing they can do about the tsunami debris, they can just clean up the beaches, but there is something that consumers can do to help them out. They see plastic bottle caps or plastic water bottles that we use around the world,consumers can simply use less plastic.
Kyung Lah, CNN, Hawaii.
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ongoing
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invalid
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tragic
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tsunami
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pickle
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buoys
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dissection
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activists
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