Download Tensions are cooling down on the Korean peninsula two months after North Korea attacked a South controlled island.

The Seoul government recently agreed to hold military level talks with the Pyongyang regime in the near future.

The shelling of Yeonpyeong Island killed two South Korean marines and two civilians.

Almost all of the island’s 15-hundred inhabitants fled  to the mainland.

Most are still living either with family or in government supplied housing.

But their support won’t last much longer. And some islanders say they still don’t feel safe to return home.

From, Gimpo City, reporter Jason Strother has more.

Download In South Korea, parents who find they have children slacking off at school, playing too many computer games, or watching too much tv are increasingly trying to straighten out their under-performing kids by sending them to military boot camps.

It's no walk in the park.

At the camps, children are forced to train - military-style - in sub-zero temperatures, crawling half-naked through snow-covered ground and doing exercises for 10-hours a day.

Here’s Mark Willacy of Radio Australia with the story.