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Lawmakers rebuke government over N. Korea disclosure
Lawmakers blasted the Cabinet Thursday over North Korea’s disclosure that the South had proposed in clandestine meetings to hold a summit with the North.On the second day of the parliamentary interpellation, the ruling Grand National Party called into question the administration’s covert approach to the North while keeping a tough stance overtly. The main opposition Democratic Party rebuked the go
PoliticsJune 3, 2011
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‘Agent Orange sprayed over DMZ in 1968-69’
South Korean and U.S. troops sprayed toxic defoliant Agent Orange and other herbicides over 6,840 hectares of the Demilitarized Zone between 1968 and 1969, in an effort to thwart North Korean infiltrations, a report said Friday.The estimated size of the areas on which Agent Orange was sprayed was about 14 percent of the southern side of the DMZ, the 4-kilometer-wide, 249-kilometer-long buffer zone
DefenseJune 3, 2011
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Lee, Park agree on party unity
President Lee Myung-bak and former ruling party leader Park Geun-hye agreed that the party should pay further attention to people’s livelihoods and promote in-party unity in order to win back public trust.The two leading powers of the ruling Grand National Party met at a luncheon on Friday, the first one-on-one meeting since last August. President Lee Myung-bak talks with Park Geun-hye, former cha
PoliticsJune 3, 2011
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Disgraced TV celebrity gets jail term for gambling
A disgraced South Korean television celebrity was slapped Friday with a court arrest to be jailed for eight months for repeatedly gambling abroad and refusing to return home in an attempt to elude investigation. Shin Jung-hwan, 36, rattled the South Korean entertainment industry when media reports said last August that he had gambled away hundreds of millions of won at a hotel casino in the P
Social AffairsJune 3, 2011
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Orangutan gets testicle back to right position after unprecedented surgery: zoo
Jill, an orangutan at the Kansas City Zoo, cares for her new baby Pendami. Zoo workers went to unprecedented lengths and earned the trust of Jill so they could monitor her pregnancy including performing ultrasound on her. (MCT)A baby Bornean orangutan at a South Korean zoo underwent surgery last month to lace up one of his testicles where it should be after it had been found abnormally stuck insid
Social AffairsJune 3, 2011
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Man poses as woman in Internet prostitution con
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested a 29-year-old man for swindling by posing as a woman in order to lure prostitute seekers.The convict, identified by his surname Yoon, allegedly approached some 340 men via online dating websites for false sex trafficking. The tempted victims sent him a total amount of $60,000.Yoon had posted photos of random women from the Internet, and then suggested “she
Social AffairsJune 3, 2011
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President Lee morally responsible for savings bank scandal: PM
President Lee Myung-bak should take moral responsibility for a snowballing influence-peddling scandal in which a troubled savings bank allegedly bribed influential government officials and politicians to avoid punishment for its irregularities, his prime minister said Thursday."President Lee, who appointed top officials in charge of supervising the bank, is morally responsible for the scandal, not
PoliticsJune 2, 2011
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Army soldier commits suicide at frontline unit
An Army private shot himself dead with his assault rifle early this week while on duty at a frontline unit, the latest in a recent string of deaths of conscripts, officials said Thursday. The private, identified only by his surname Choi, was found dead with a bullet in his head in the pre-dawn hours of Monday outside a military post near Hwacheon, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to th
Social AffairsJune 2, 2011
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Four dead in apparent Internet suicide pact
Two young men and two women were found dead in a car Thursday in an apparent Internet-based group suicide, Korean police said.Police said the four, including a 25-year-old woman identified only as Park, left suicide notes in their bags in the car parked next to a river in Seongju, 210 kilometers southeast of Seoul.They apparently inhaled toxic fumes after burning coal briquettes inside the vehicle
Social AffairsJune 2, 2011
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N.K.’s action aimed at damaging Lee
North Korea’s disclosure of what it claims was an “under-the-table proposal” from the South for summits seems to seek a stir here that observers say will not only worsen inter-Korean ties but trigger political conflicts.Pyongyang’s National Defense Commission said Wednesday some of President Lee Myung-bak’s aides had made secretive contact with the North earlier this year to propose three summit m
North KoreaJune 2, 2011
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Financial intelligence chief grilled in graft probe
Prosecutors on Thursday questioned the chief of a state-run anti-money laundering agency over allegations that he accepted tens of millions of won in kickbacks from Busan Savings Bank. The interrogation came as they widened their probe into the bribery scandal involving savings banks. The ongoing investigation into who oversaw the savings banks’ corruption has already implicated an ex-governor of
PoliticsJune 2, 2011
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Lawmaker calls for stronger policy on Dokdo
Rep. Kang, says ‘silent diplomacy’ is no more than a passive responseKorea should strengthen its policies on Dokdo given the Japanese government’s active involvement in recent years, said the chairman of the parliamentary subcommittee on Dokdo issues.Rep. Kang Chang-il, together with Reps. Moon Hak-jin and Chang Se-hwan of the subcommittee, visited early last week Kunashiri Island, the largest amo
PoliticsJune 2, 2011
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Assembly grills Cabinet on N.K., savings banks
Lawmakers have blasted Cabinet members on the savings banks investigation and unofficial summit suggestions to North Korea during the four-day parliamentary interpellation which started Thursday.Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, who served as chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection in 2008-2010, denied any involvement in the slack supervision of savings banks during that time.The main opposition
PoliticsJune 2, 2011
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Seoul City plans probe on U.S. bases in capital
The Seoul Metropolitan Government will launch its own inspection into environmental contamination near U.S. military bases in the city, officials said Thursday.In a meeting of senior officials, the city decided to carry out a special investigation into the underground water in the areas adjacent to U.S. camps from June 6 to the end of the month. A total of 12 U.S. military camps are based in Seoul
Social AffairsJune 2, 2011
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No confirmation buried chemicals removed
U.S. says it has found no official records of orders given to remove materials yetA U.S. Army commander told South Korean officials on Thursday that there was no confirmation that chemicals were removed from Camp Carroll, contrary to earlier statements that herbicides were disposed offsite.Earlier in the month, Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, commander of the Eighth U.S. Army and head of the Joint Inves
Social AffairsJune 2, 2011
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Ex-FSS chief faces probe in savings bank scandal
The prosecution plans to summon for questioning a former chief of the nation’s financial watchdog in a widening investigation into corruption at Busan Mutual Savings Bank. Kim Jong-chang, who was until March this year governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, is suspected of exerting his influence to help the lender survive regulatory inspections. Kim Jong-changThe FSS is the nation’s top fi
Social AffairsJune 1, 2011
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Pyongyang, Beijing to build industrial belt in North
North Korea and China recently forged a deal to develop two North Korean border towns into an industrial belt and introduce, in part, free market practices, a North Korean government document showed.According to the document obtained by the Yonhap news agency, Pyongyang and Beijing agreed to foster the development of the North’s towns of Rason and Hwanggumpyong into an industrial belt.Rason, in th
North KoreaJune 1, 2011
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Seoul proposed 3 inter-Korean summits: N.K.
Ministry says North distorting South’s ‘real intentions’North Korea said Wednesday South Korea proposed to hold three meetings between their leaders and pleaded for any gesture to appease South Koreans still angry over last year’s attacks via an unofficial communication channel.Pyongyang’s powerful National Defense Commission said senior officials from Seoul including President Lee Myung-bak’s sec
North KoreaJune 1, 2011
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Communist allies seek strategic interests
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s recent visit to China indicated that the two countries’ communist alliance remains intact, but that it may be shifting toward a relationship based more on strategic and economic interests.The varying tones of state-run media reports from Pyongyang and Beijing on Kim’s summit meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao last week suggested that the two allies may not b
North KoreaJune 1, 2011
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[News Focus] North Korea turning tough against South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (eighth from left) and his son and heir apparent Jong-un (fourth from left) pose with officials during his recent visit to the Heechun Power Plant construction site in Jagang Province. (Yonhap News)Abandoning its months-long reconciliatory gesture, North Korea threatened this week to cut off a military hotline with South Korea, a change analysts say might affect the
North KoreaJune 1, 2011