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N. Korea raps officials for 'leadership flaws' amid economic drive
N. Korea says it conducted 'another crucial test' at satellite launch site
Multiple pileups on highway kill at least 7, injure more than 30
Single-member families account for nearly 30 pct of S. Korean households
LG honorary chairman dies at age 94
Russia provides 1,355 tons of refined oil to N. Korea in Oct.
PyeongChang invites tourists to trout and snow festivals
Moon in dilemma over next prime minister
Samsung VP gets jail term for attempting to break up labor union
Biegun to visit Seoul next week ahead of N.K. year-end deadline

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N. Korea raps officials for 'leadership flaws' amid economic drive

North Korea's cabinet has rapped officials for "flaws" in leadership and strategies that undermine its national push for economic development, urging them to work hard to achieve goals set in a five-year economic development scheme.The North made the call during an extended cabinet meeting it recently convened to review the work that has been done over the past four years and to discuss what measures should be taken for next year, the cabinet newspaper Minju Choson reported Saturday. &

N. Korea says it conducted 'another crucial test' at satellite launch site

North Korea said Saturday it has carried out "another crucial test" at its satellite launch site and the results will be used to strengthen its "reliable strategic nuclear deterrent."The unspecified test took place from 10:41 p.m. to 10:48 p.m. on Friday at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, better known as the Dongchang-ri site, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said. It did not say what was tested. "The research successes being registered by us in defe

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Foreign Affairs
Multiple pileups on highway kill at least 7, injure more than 30

Two massive pileups occurred within moments on a highway in the country's southeast early Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 32 others, officials said. The first crash occurred at about 4:40 a.m., when some 10 vehicles, including cargo trucks, collided on a highway en route to Youngcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, 301 kilometers south of Seoul.Some 20 other vehicles that had followed behind crashed successively.Six people died, and 14 others were wounded, according to th

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Social affairs
Russia provides 1,355 tons of refined oil to N. Korea in Oct.

Russia provided 1,355 tons of refined oil to North Korea in October, the Voice of America (VOA) reported Saturday. The figure is far much less than the 2,136 tons Moscow reported it shipped to the communist state the previous month. According to the U.N. Security Council website, Russia has provided a cumulative 25,057 tons of refined oil in the January-October period. The U.N. began asking member countries to report the supply, sale and transfer of all refined petroleum products to North Korea

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Foreign Affairs
Moon in dilemma over next prime minister

Having picked a nominee to become justice minister after long consideration, President Moon Jae-in faces a similar kind of major task: deciding whether to replace his prime minister and, if so, whom to choose. Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon is the front-runner to become Moon's successor in various opinion polls, while the next presidential race is more than two years away.Lee is reportedly hoping to return to the ruling Democratic Party (DP) to play a role in the April 15 general elections in 2020.L

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Politics
Biegun to visit Seoul next week ahead of N.K. year-end deadline

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun will visit Seoul next week, the foreign ministry said Friday, just weeks ahead of Pyongyang's year-end deadline for Washington to show flexibility to advance their stalemated nuclear talks.His three-day visit starting Sunday will come amid rising tensions in the wake of Pyongyang's apparent rocket engine test last week and Washington's subsequent warnings against additional "hostile" acts. Biegun's planned trip has spawned

Dec 13, 2019
Diplomatic Circuit
Labor office launches probe into employer paying migrant workers in fake money

A local labor office said Friday that it is investigating allegations that a subcontractor had paid Vietnamese migrant workers in fake money for their farm labor. According to an association of migrant workers’ rights organizations based in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, the subcontractor paid the workers in paper coupons, instead of cash, promising to exchange the coupons with real currency when they wanted. Their employer, however, did not exchange the coupons in full when re

Dec 13, 2019
Social affairs
Detective admits to coercing testimony in 1980s murder case

A police officer has admitted to torturing a 53-year-old surnamed Yun during the investigation into the Hwaseong serial killings in the 1980s to 1990s. Yun was later convicted for the eighth murder in the case. Local reports said Friday the Suwon Prosecutors’ Office recently called in three former detectives who investigated Yun for questioning.One of the officers acknowledged that he had deprived Yun of sleep. But he denied that he had beat Yun or forced him to do squat jumps as alleged b

Dec 13, 2019
Social affairs
Special investigation unit secures audit records for Sewol sinking

A special unit of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office launched Nov. 11 to reinvestigate the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster raided the Board of Audit and Inspection on Thursday and secured audit records for a number of government ministries from the aftermath of the sinking. Shortly after the disaster, the audit agency conducted probes into relevant government bodies, including the Coast Guard, to find out why a new locally developed Navy ship was not mobilized to aid the rescue operations.South Kor

Dec 13, 2019
Social affairs
Malaysian court approves N. Korean's extradition to US

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- A North Korean man is likely to face money-laundering charges in the United States after a Malaysian court approved his extradition Friday, in a case his lawyers claim is politically motivated. Mun Chol -myong has denied FBI claims that he led a criminal group that violated sanctions by supplying luxury goods to his isolated homeland and laundered funds through front companies. The 54-year-old, who has lived in Malaysia with his family for a decade, was arrested in May foll

Dec 13, 2019
North Korea
Ruling party slams ex-president for extravagant wine and dine

The ruling Democratic Party of Korea on Friday lashed out at former President Chun Doo-hwan, who is now on trial on libel charges in connection with his role in the 1980 crackdown on the Gwangju Democratic Uprising, for hosting an extravagant luncheon on the anniversary of the military coup that brought him to power. The former Army general, 88, seized power in a military coup on Dec. 12, 1979, following the assassination of President Park Chung-hee on Oct. 26 by his spy agency director. C

Dec 13, 2019
Social affairs
S. Korea, US to hold defense cost-sharing talks in Seoul next week

South Korea and the United States will hold a new round of negotiations in Seoul next week on the sharing of the cost for stationing American troops here, the foreign ministry said Friday, amid few signs of either side giving ground.Seoul's chief negotiator Jeong Eun-bo and his US counterpart James DeHart are set to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday over how much Seoul should pay for the upkeep of the 28,500-strong US Forces Korea. They last met in Washington early this month.The allies have been st

Dec 13, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Moon cites history lessons over 'fairness, freedom, equality' from

President Moon Jae-in on Friday emphasized lessons from a couple of historic events here against Japan's colonial rule in the 1900s, saying South Korea still has a ways to go to promote fairness, freedom and equality.This year, South Korea has commemorated the 100th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement and the establishment of a provisional government in Shanghai. The two are highlights of Korea's fight against Japan's brutal colonization from 1910-45."The most important reaso

Dec 13, 2019
Politics
[Newsmaker] Singer Kim Gun-mo sues woman who filed rape suit

Singer Kim Gun-mo, 51, on Friday countersued a woman who accused the singer of sexual assault, denying all allegations made against him. On the same day, Kim’s agency Guneum announced the cancellation of the singer’s nationwide concert tour that was to take place Dec. 24 to Feb. 29, 2020.On Monday, the woman, surnamed Kim, sued the singer, claiming he had sexually assaulted her in August 2016 at a bar in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where she worked. “Kim Gun-mo does not know the woman a

Dec 13, 2019
Social affairs
N. Korea could announce end to nuke talks later this month: think tank

North Korea could announce an end to denuclearization talks with the United States when it convenes a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party later this month, a state-run think tank said Friday.The North said last week it will convene a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the WPK later this month to address "crucial issues in line with the needs of the development of the Korean revolution and the changed situation at home and abroad."The announcement came as Pyongyang has ramped

Dec 13, 2019
North Korea

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