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Korean student attacked in London in alleged ‘hate crime’
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Foreign ministry official found unconscious in Singapore while accompanying Moon

SINGAPORE -- President Moon Jae-in said Friday that one of the foreign ministry officials accompanying him on his trip to Singapore was found unconscious in her hotel room following an apparent stroke.Kim Eun-young, director-general at the ministry's South Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau, appears to have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was rushed to a local hospital, Moon said in a Twitter message.Moon arrived in Singapore for a four-day visit to attend a series of annual regional summits wi

N. Korea may have tested new long-range artillery: source

North Korea's newly developed tactical weapon is thought to be a long-range artillery piece, a government source in Seoul said Friday, hours after Pyongyang's media reported on leader Kim Jong-un's supervision of its recent testing.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the communist leader oversaw the test of the "ultramodern" weapon and called it a "decisive turn in bolstering the fighting capacity" of his military."We presume it to be a new type of long-range artillery," the sou

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North Korea
Korean student attacked in London in alleged ‘hate crime’

A South Korean student alleged she was assaulted by a group of “racist” teenagers in what she deems a “hate crime” in central London on Nov. 11, which has left her feeling “broken” and “helpless.”In a lengthy Facebook post Thursday, the student studying at the University of Creative Arts, said she was targeted by “a mixed group of racist white and black strangers” as she was walking down the street late Sunday afternoon.She wrote, “I first ignored the group following me, but they kept throwing t

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Social affairs
Man says he ‘beat separated wife after seeing her with another man’

A man in his 20s was booked without physical detention for allegedly beating his wife, whom he is separated from amid divorce proceedings, after he saw her with another man, police said Friday. According to Suwon Nambu Police Station, the suspect is being charged with battery. He is accused of kicking and punching his wife in the face in front of her house in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, at around 10:10 p.m. Thursday. He also allegedly assaulted the man who was with her at the time. (Yonhap)He tol

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Social affairs
Korea, UAE launch high-level dialogue channel on nuclear cooperation

South Korea and the United Arab Emirates launched a high-level dialogue channel on nuclear cooperation on Friday, in another sign of their expanding partnership.The two countries held the inaugural session of the High-Level Consultation in Seoul, led by Seoul's Vice Foreign Minister, Lee Tae-ho, and Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei, the UAE minister of energy and industry.They agreed to install the dialogue channel during South Korean President Moon Jae-in's state visit to the Middle East countr

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Foreign Policy
NK weapon test doesn't signal abandonment of nuke talks: official

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's test of an unspecified high-tech weapon should not be interpreted as a sign that the regime is abandoning denuclearization talks with the United States, a senior South Korean official said Thursday.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the "successful" test of a "high-tech tactical weapon" at a national defense institute, state media reported early Friday (local time).It marked the first such inspection by the leader following his viewing of an intercontinental ba

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North Korea
Korea's top nuclear envoy to visit US next week

Senior South Korean and US diplomats will have talks next week on joint efforts to denuclearize North Korea, including the planned launch of a bilateral "working group," Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.Lee Do-hoon, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will make a three-day trip to Washington DC from Monday and meet with his counterpart Stephen Biegun. (Yonhap)They will share the assessment of Korean Peninsula security conditions and discuss ways to strengt

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Foreign Policy
N. Korean officials visit lake park, residential town near Seoul

GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province -- A five-member North Korean delegation that arrived in South Korea on Wednesday to attend an international peace forum toured a residential town and a lake park on the northern outskirts of Seoul on Friday.The North's delegates, led by Ri Jong-hyok, vice chairman of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, looked around Ilsan New Town and Ilsan Lake Park, in Goyang, north of Seoul, aboard a bus before attending the international forum on Asia-Pacific peace and prosper

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North Korea
McDonald’s customer says ‘stress from work’ made him hurl bag of food

A man captured in a video assaulting a McDonald’s drive-thru employee in Ulsan issued a statement to police Thursday, saying he sincerely wants to apologize to the victim for his abusive behavior. According to Ulsan Jungbu Police Station, the 49-year-old man, surnamed Kim, claimed to have gotten so “mad after receiving only a burger (without french fries) while undergoing so much stress at work.” The video initially uploaded on Bobae Dream, an internet community for car lovers, went viral follow

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Social affairs
Korean Navy's first training ship to be launched Friday

The first training ship of South Korea's Navy is set to be launched on Friday afternoon. The ceremony for the ATH-81 Hansando vessel, which will be deployed in early 2021, will take place at the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in the southeastern city of Ulsan, the Navy said.ATH is the acronym of Auxiliary Training Ship Helo. (Yonhap)The 4,500-ton, 142-meter-long ship can sail more than 12,000 km at the speed of 18kts (33km/h). The maximum pace is 24kts. It's equipped with 76-mm and 40-mm g

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Defense
[Weather] ‘Bad’ levels of fine dust blanket nation

The Korea Meteorological Administration on Friday issued its forecast of cloudy skies and bad fine dust levels across the nation. According to the weather agency, South Jeolla Province and Jeju Island will see some rainfall, while parts of the North and South Gyeongsang provinces will be covered in thick fog. (Yonhap)Fine dust will hit “bad” levels in Daegu, North Chungcheong Province, South Chungcheong Province, North Jeolla Province and North Gyeongsang Province, while other remaining areas w

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Social affairs
N. Korean leader orders development of gateway city to China

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has instructed a sweeping development of Sinuiju, the North's main border city with China, Pyongyang's media reported Friday.Kim examined and guided the master plan for Sinuiju before setting forth the tasks and ways of successfully sprucing up the border gateway city to meet the demand of the present era, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency. A photo released by the Rodong Sinmun on Nov. 16, 2018, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guiding t

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North Korea
Moon heads to Papua New Guinea for APEC forum, meeting with Xi

SINGAPORE -- President Moon Jae-in left Singapore for Papua New Guinea on Friday for this year's summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and bilateral meetings on its sidelines, including one with Chinese President Xi Jinping.North Korea's denuclearization process is expected to dominate the meeting with Xi set for Saturday. It will be their fourth meeting since Moon took office last year. They last met in December when Moon made a state visit to China. (Yonhap)While in Singapore f

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Foreign Policy
NK leader orders distribution of S. Korean tangerines to students, workers

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has instructed the tangerines that South Korea recently sent as a gift be distributed to students and workers in Pyongyang, the country's state media said Friday.On Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in sent 200 tons of tangerines of the country's southern island of Jeju to North Korea in return for the mushrooms that Kim sent as a gift in September. (Yonhap)"Kim Jong-un expressed thanks to Moon Jae-in for sending the gift associated with warm feelings of Sou

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North Korea
NK proposes connecting int'l air routes over border with S. Korea

North Korea on Friday proposed connecting international air routes along the western and eastern coasts of the Korean Peninsula during the first-ever inter-Korean meeting on aviation cooperation, Seoul's unification ministry said.South Korea agreed to hold further discussion on the issue through meetings of aviation authorities, according to the ministry. "The South and the North also agreed to keep having discussion on the overall cooperation in the aviation sector," the ministry said in a text

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North Korea

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