Merrill Newman, the 85-year-old Korean war veteran who had been held by North Korea for more than a month, has been freed. Newman had been visiting the DPRK as a tourist in October, when he was pulled off a plane and arrested by North Korean authorities, who considered him an American spy.

Today is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, so naturally North Korea is stirring things up by imposing a shipping ban in its western waters. The South fears the North could be preparing more missile tests.