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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Ministry denies blame for Jamboree debacle
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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U.S. institute: Water woes endanger N. Korea reactor
North Korea may have temporarily shut down a plutonium reactor earlier this year as it wrestled with water supply problems that could threaten the safety of its nuclear complex, a U.S. research institute said Monday.The North restarted the 5-megawatt reactor at the Nyongbyon complex only last year, backtracking on a commitment of previous aid-for-disarmament negotiations and raising fresh alarm over its nuclear weapons program.A constant water supply from a nearby river is essential to cool the
April 8, 2014
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan issue joint warning to N. Korea
In a show of unity in dealing with North Korea, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan jointly warned the communist nation Monday not to take any more provocative steps."If North Korea goes ahead with another nuclear test, we, along with the international community, will make it pay the price for that," South Korea's top nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook told reporters in Washington, D.C. "North Korea's nuclear test would be a direct challenge to the international community, and a threat to peace and secu
April 8, 2014
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N.K. lashes out at Seoul for ballistic missile test
Pyongyang on Monday again lashed out at Seoul for its recent test of a new ballistic missile capable of hitting anywhere in North Korea, threatening retaliation against what it said was a “grave provocation.” South Korea’s Defense Ministry said last week that the March 23 test-firing was successful and the missile has a range of 500 kilometers and a payload of 1 ton. “If a U.S. missile or the South Korean puppet forces’ missile falls on any part of the DPRK (North Korea), we will pound all the s
April 7, 2014
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N.K. TV considers broadcasting BBC shows
North Korea is reportedly considering whether to air BBC programs on its tightly controlled state TV after months of negotiations with the British government. North Korean authorities have selected three BBC shows ― science-fiction series “Dr. Who,” “Top Gear,” a show about motor vehicles, and preschool children’s show “Teletubbies” ― that the state is willing to consider showing its people, the Independent in the U.K. reported Sunday. The decision came after the BBC took the initiative last yea
April 7, 2014
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Pyongyang intensifies verbal attacks against Park
The level of North Korea’s slanderous remarks against South Korean President Park Geun-hye has far exceeded most people’s expectations. It is quite common for North Korea to publicly run defamatory comments against South Korean leaders. But the language has become extremely libelous and sexist, as she was described as an “ignorant bitch” and an “unchaste political prostitute.” Breaking its promise to stop slandering one another in February, the authoritarian state’s verbal attacks were resumed a
April 7, 2014
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N. Korea expanding prison camps
Pyongyang is reportedly expanding its prison camps to accommodate the increasing number of what it calls political criminals, further deepening concerns over human rights abuses in the reclusive state.Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported Monday that there had been moves in the North to expand Camp 16 in Hwasong, North Hamgyong Province; Camp 25 in Chongjin of the same province; and Camp 18 in Bukchang, South Pyongan Province.The North appears to be expanding the existing prisons or constructing new f
April 7, 2014
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Park calls for preparedness for N. Korean provocations
President Park Geun-hye said Monday that South Korea should be prepared to immediately repel any North Korean provocations, stressing it is an ominous sign that the communist nation has fired missiles and strengthened reconnaissance with drones.In a weekly meeting with senior aides, Park also ordered officials to come up with measures to close the holes in South Korea's air defense that were revealed in the wake of findings that a series of North Korean drones flew undetected over the South on s
April 7, 2014
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S. Korea adamant against lifting sanctions on North
South Korea is not considering lifting its four-year-old sanctions against North Korea, Seoul's unification ministry said Monday, maintaining its stance that the North should first admit to its deadly torpedo attack against the South's warship.In the wake of the sinking of the South's Cheonan warship near the Yellow Sea border with the North on March 26, 2010, which claimed the lives of 46 South Korean sailors, the Seoul government imposed a set of sanctions against Pyongyang on May 24 that year
April 7, 2014
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N. Korea slams South for test-firing ballistic missile
North Korea blasted South Korea Monday for test-firing a ballistic missile capable of reaching all parts of the communist country, threatening strong retaliation against any provocation.Late last month, South Korea successfully tested the ballistic missile with a range of 500 kilometers and a payload of 1 ton at a firing range southwest of Seoul, which hit the intended target.Calling the March 23 test launch a "grave provocation," the North's Academy of the National Defense Science said that Pyo
April 7, 2014
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U.S. to send 2 missile destroyers to Japan
TOKYO (AP) ― U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter the North Korean threat, and saying China must better respect its neighbors.In unusually forceful remarks about China, Hagel drew a direct line between Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea region and the ongoing territorial disputes between China, Japan and others over remote islands in
April 6, 2014
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S. Korea returns three rescued N. Korean sailors, two bodies
South Korea handed over three rescued North Korean sailors and two bodies to the North on Sunday, an official said.The repatriation took place at the truce village of Panmunjom inside a military buffer zone that separates the two Koreas, according to the government official.The move came two days after the North asked for the repatriation of its surviving crew members and the bodies of the dead through a dialogue channel at Panmunjom.On Friday, a Mongolian-flagged cargo ship sank some 63 kilomet
April 6, 2014
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S. Korea finds suspected third N. Korean drone
South Korea found a suspected third North Korean drone on a mountain on the east coast, officials said Sunday, in what could be the latest in a series of border incursions by North Korea's spy drones.South Korean soldiers found the crashed drone in the middle of a mountain in Samcheok, 290 kilometers east of Seoul, on Sunday after three local residents informed the military that they had seen a crashed unmanned drone in the mountain in October, the defense ministry officials said.The residents t
April 6, 2014
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'N. Korea's unmanned attack drones capable of striking S. Korea'
North Korea's unmanned attack drones are believed to be capable of striking all targets in South Korea, a government official said Sunday, amid new security concerns over North Korea's spy drones.North Korea has deployed unmanned attack drones it unveiled in March last year during military drills meant to destroy low-flying cruise missiles and test the accuracy of unmanned combat aerial vehicles.The range of unmanned attack drones is estimated at up to 800 kilometers, capable of striking major S
April 6, 2014
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N.Korea slams S. Korean missile test
North Korea blasted South Korea on Saturday for test-firing a missile capable of hitting anywhere in the communist country, saying that Seoul will no longer be justified to blame it for launching rockets In a report carried by the state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seoul, a spokesman for the North Korean Army's Strategic Force said it was "a great irony" that South Korea is celebrating a successful test-fire of a ballistic missile when it has been denouncing the North's missil
April 6, 2014
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Senior N. Korean diplomat no show at Beijing airport
BEIJING (Yonhap) -- A senior North Korean diplomat in charge of talks to normalize relations with Japan did not arrive in Beijing on Saturday, despite a Japanese media report that Pyongyang and Tokyo would hold informal high-level talks here over the weekend.North Korean delegation, including Ambassador Song Il-ho, the North's chief negotiator in the normalization talks with Japan, did not show at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Saturday, and no flight between Pyongyang and Beijing
April 5, 2014
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N. Korea asks for rescue of missing crew
SEOUL/YEOSU (Yonhap) -- Pyongyang asked "concerning parties" Saturday to rescue its sailors who have been missing since a cargo ship with 16 North Koreans aboard sank off the southwestern coast of South Korea the previous day.The Mongolian-flagged 4,300-ton boat, named Grand Fortune 1, ran aground at around 1 a.m. on Friday, some 74 kilometers off the coast of Yeosu, South Jeolla Province.Of the 16 crew members aboard the ship, all North Koreans, two were found dead and three were rescued on the
April 5, 2014
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N. Korea reports outbreak of FMD in cows
North Korea has reported a fresh outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in cattle to a world animal quarantine body, two months after reporting outbreak of the infectious disease in pigs, a U.S. radio report said Saturday.The Voice of America said that Pyongyang submitted a report to the World Organization for Animal Health, saying that the disease broke out at a cow farm in Cholwon county of Kangwon Province, near the boarder area with South Korea, on March 14.Nine cows out of 52 were infected
April 5, 2014
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N. Korea ousts commerce minister
North Korea has replaced its commerce minister last month, according to state-run media report Saturday, amid efforts to phase out supporters of Jang Song-thaek, the executed uncle of the current leader.North Korea's radio broadcaster Pyongyang Broadcasting Station reported that new Commerce Minister Kim Kyong-nam was in attendance at a food festival marking the birth anniversary of the country's founder.It was the first time that Kim Kyong-nam was introduced as commerce minister by North Korean
April 5, 2014
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U.S. to keep pressing N. Korea through sanctions: Treasury official
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- The U.S. government will keep imposing tough sanctions on North Korea in a bid to press the communist nation to adopt a policy of denuclearization, a senior Treasury official said Friday."What we are going to continue to do is to implement the sanctions programs that we have in place, which are focused on North Korea's efforts to develop its nuclear program, as well as North Korea's other illicit activity," David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial i
April 5, 2014
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North Korea says U.S. `hell-bent on regime change'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea on Friday accused the United States of being "hell-bent on regime change" and warned that any maneuvers with that intention will be viewed as a "red line" that will result in countermeasures.Pyongyang's deputy U.N. ambassador Ri Tong Il also repeated that his government "made it very clear we will carry out a new form of nuclear test" but refused to elaborate, saying only that "I recommend you to wait and see what it is."His comments came at North Korea's secon
April 5, 2014