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Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Food, messages sent in bottles to North Korea So the men, all in their fifties, sixties, and seventies, simply unload their cargo and begin hauling heavy sacks on foot more than a half mile to the launch point. This is as close as Jeong Gwang-il and his fellow volunteers can get to North Korea.

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Twice a month they come to this rocky jetty to deliver gifts for their poorer neighbors in the North. The small group waits for the tide to change. They clasp their hands in prayer, and then they begin hurling hundreds of plastic bottles into the sea.

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Also inside are medicine to kill parasites -- doctors found worms in the stomach of a soldier who darted across the DMZ last year to defect -- and a USB stick full of videos with information from the outside world. They hold information banned in the country meant "to wake up the North Korean people," as Jeong puts it.

As we watch the flotilla of water bottles carried away by the tide toward North Korea, one of Jeong's colleagues, a former North Korean military officer named Kim Yong-hwa, has much tougher words for the leadership in Pyongyang. Activists, religious or not, have been informally smuggling food and information into North Korea for years.

Mr Von Neuhoff said researchers were able to determine, based on the address, that it was year-old baker's son Richard Platz who threw the bottle in the Baltic while on a hike with a nature appreciation group in A drift bottle released out to sea on June 10, by Captain C. Brown was a scientist at the Glasgow School of Navigation studying the currents of the North Sea, and the bottle was one of 1, released on June 10, The message inside read: You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift.

Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea.

The Conversation

A year-old kite surfer, Matea Medak Rezic, stumbled across a half-broken bottle while clearing debris from a Croatian beach at the mouth of the Neretva river in the southern Adriatic. Inside the bottle was a message from Jonathan, from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, who had written it 28 years earlier, honouring his promise to write to a woman named Mary. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write.

Your friend always, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, The bottle would have had to have travelled approximately 6, kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean, entered the Mediterranean Sea, and then drifted into the Adriatic Sea.

Zoe Averianov, from Hebden Bridge, was 10 years old when she threw her message in a bottle overboard as she went on holiday, travelling by ferry from Hull in England to Belgium on September 12, Please would you write to me, I would like it a lot. I am 10 years old and I like ballet, playing the flute and the piano.

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I have a hamster called Sparkle and fish called Speckle. Twenty-three years later at Christmas in , a letter arrived to Zoe's parents' address from a Dutch couple: In , while on a ferry crossing the English Channel, a French mother threw a teardrop-shaped bottle, some clothes and lilies overboard.

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Inside the bottle was a note from the mother to her child, Maurice, who had died at age Forgive me for not having been able to find the words at that terrible moment when you slipped through my fingers". A few weeks later, Sioux Peto found the bottle washed up on a beach in Kent when she was walking her dogs. Peto found a lock of hair and a letter written in French inside. She gave the letter to her friend, UK-based author Karen Liebreich, to translate. Over the following few years, Liebreich tried to discover who the French mother was, but without success.

Then in , Liebreich authored the book The Letter In The Bottle about the discovery, and a few years after the book's release, the mother who wrote the letter contacted Liebreich and the two women finally met a month later in northern France.

Geoff Flood was taking a walk with his partner on Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand one Sunday in November , when he noticed a bottle floating near the beach. Inside the bottle he found a handwritten note dated March 17, Would the finder of this bottle kindly forward this note, where found, date, to undermentioned address.

Underneath the note was signed the name: The note was written on special stationery marked with a picture of the ship that the note is thought to have come from - the SS Strathnaver, a British Royal Mail Ship that carried people between England and Australia. Flood discovered that H.

Hillbrick had died in the early s, but he was lead to Hillbrick's grandson, Peter Hillbrick, who was living in Perth. Peter told local media of the discovery: Smack Polly, of Brighton. Dying of hunger and thirst. Are on a raft off the Needles. Nets all carried away by the last storm. Nothing more could be learned of the matter. This is my last, as our good ship is foundering and is three days on her beam ends, springing a leak.

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Sinking fast; Ocean Maid; lat. God spare me or not, give my love to all; I am no more. James R Gilmour, England. Ou ship, the Puffin, is sinking. She caught fire on the 18th, and has burned for two days. The pumps are no use.