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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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S. Korea in talks with allies to counteract N. Korea's plutonium production
South Korea is in discussions with its allies on how to counteract North Korea's claimed resumption of weapons-grade plutonium production, a government official said Thursday.On Wednesday, Japan's Kyodo News reported North Korea had restarted its plutonium production for nuclear weapons use, citing its interview with Pyongyang's Atomic Energy Institute. The North Korean institute said producing highly enriched uranium is necessary for nuclear weapons and power, highlighting that it has no plans
Aug. 18, 2016
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Report says N. Korean defectors vulnerable to civil suits in South
A majority of North Korean defectors are embroiled in money-related civil suits in South Korea as they are not accustomed to money transactions in the capitalist society, a report showed Thursday.The Korea Hana Foundation, the government's agency that supports North Korean settlement in the South, provided free legal services to former North Koreans involved in 142 cases in 2014, according to the report released by the state-run Korea Development Institute.Out of the total, 81 cases were civil s
Aug. 18, 2016
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N.K. diplomat defector, wife from highly privileged families: source
A top North Korean diplomat and his wife who defected to South Korea come from privileged backgrounds as they are descendants of prominent guerrillas who fought against Japanese colonialists in the 1930s, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.Thae Yong-ho, who served as minister at North Korea's embassy in London, is believed to be the son of late four-star general Thae Pyong-ryol who actively took part in the anti-Japanese campaign, led by North Korea's late founder Kim Il-sung, accor
Aug. 18, 2016
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N. Korea sets up 3 new antiaircraft artillery bases in Pyongyang: report
North Korea has set up three new antiaircraft artillery bases in the outskirts of Pyongyang as part of its efforts to defend the North Korean capital and its military facilities, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said Thursday.Citing Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, the RFA said a satellite imagery analysis of the antiaircraft artillery bases suggests they are situated in eastern Pyongyang and an existing antiaircraft artillery base is reinforced
Aug. 18, 2016
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U.S. calls for protection of N.K. refugees, asylum seekers after high-profile defection
The United States on Wednesday called for protecting North Korean refugees and asylum seekers around the world after the No. 2 diplomat at the North's Embassy in Britain was confirmed to have defected to South Korea.Thae Yong-ho, 55, minister at the North's mission in London, recently arrived in South Korea with his family, Seoul's Ministry of Unification announced earlier Wednesday without unveiling further details. He is one of the highest-ranking North Korean diplomats to defect to Seoul."We
Aug. 18, 2016
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State Deparment: N. Korea's nuclear reprocessing 'clear violation' of UN resolutions
The United States said Wednesday North Korea's resumption of nuclear fuel reprocessing for plutonium production is a "clear violation" of UN Security Council resolutions.Pyongyang's Atomic Energy Institute said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo News published earlier Wednesday that the communist nation has "reprocessed spent nuclear fuel rods removed from a graphite-moderated reactor." It was referring to the five-megawatt reactor at the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex.It marked the first time
Aug. 18, 2016
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N. Korea threatens attacks on US military bases in Pacific over bombers deployment
North Korea denounced the United States' forward deployment of additional nuclear bombers to Guam on Wednesday, threatening that American military bases in the Pacific region will face "ruin" in the event of reckless acts."The introduction of the nuclear strategic bombers to Guam by the US... proves that the US plan for a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK has entered a reckless phase of implementation," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported in a statement issued by the fo
Aug. 18, 2016
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N.Korea says it has resumed plutonium production: Kyodo
North Korea says it has resumed plutonium production from spent fuel rods and has no plans to stop nuclear tests as long as the United States still "threatens" Pyongyang, Kyodo News reported Wednesday. The North's Atomic Energy Institute, which has jurisdiction over the country's main atomic complex Yongbyon, told Kyodo it had been producing highly enriched uranium for nuclear arms and power "as scheduled". "We have reprocessed spent nuclear fuel rods removed from a graphite-moderated reacto
Aug. 17, 2016
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North Korean diplomat defects to South with family
North Korea’s second-highest ranking diplomat based in London has defected to South Korea, the Unification Ministry said Wednesday, marking one of the highest-profile defections in recent years from the communist state. “Thae Yong-ho, a minister based in Britain, has recently entered South Korea with his wife and child. They are currently under protection of the government, and the related organizations are carrying out necessary procedures,” said ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee during a media
Aug. 17, 2016
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North Korea lambastes Park's Liberation Day address
North Korea on Wednesday lashed out at the address by South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Liberation Day earlier this week when she called on the North to abandon its development of weapons of mass destruction.In a statement released by North Korea’s Committee for Peaceful Reunification, it called Park’s speech a “brazen gripe to hide the guilt of forcing the inter-Korean relations into a ruin.”The statement then went onto protest South Korea’s decision to deploy an advanced missile shield s
Aug. 17, 2016
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Human rights group produces video clip featuring N.K.'s violation of religious freedom
A human rights group said Wednesday that it has produced a video clip highlighting the North Korean regime violating the freedom of religion for its citizens. The 6-minute-long clip to be posted on YouTube features Pyongyang's human rights violations in cracking down on religious freedom among its people, according to the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea.It is available in eight different languages: Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Russian
Aug. 17, 2016
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S. Korea mulling unveiling list of N.K. human rights violators: source
South Korea is studying a plan to unveil a list of North Korean violators of human rights as a new law aimed at improving the North's rights situation is set to take effect next month, a government source said Wednesday.Seoul is carefully reviewing whether to make public its own list of North Korean perpetrators following Washington's latest move to impose sanctions on the North's human rights offenders and agencies, the source said.Last month, Washington blacklisted North Korean leader Kim Jong
Aug. 17, 2016
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N.K. condemns Park's address calling on Pyongyang to give up nukes
North Korea on Wednesday condemned President Park Geun-hye's latest speech calling for Pyongyang to end its nuclear and missile programs, saying that she is to blame for worsening inter-Korean ties.On Monday, Park gave a speech to mark the 71st anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.In her address, Park urged North Korea to immediately end its nuclear and missile programs while defending Seoul's planned deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system on its so
Aug. 17, 2016
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High-ranking North Korean official in DR Congo for talks
A high-ranking North Korean official has returned from a rare visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the two sides discussed the North's defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, the North's official media reported on Tuesday. Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea and former foreign minister, held talks with Henri Mova Sakanyi, secretary general of the People's Party for the Reconstruction and the Democracy of DR Congo, on Sunday, the North's Korean Cen
Aug. 17, 2016
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North Korean restaurant workers resettle in South Korea after April mass defection
A group of 13 North Korean defectors who worked at a restaurant in China have recently begun to resettle in South Korea after undergoing Seoul's probe into what caused their massive defection in April, Seoul's unification ministry said Tuesday.In early April, one male manager and 12 female workers who worked at a Pyongyang-run restaurant in the Chinese eastern port city of Ningbo defected to South Korea en masse.The Ministry of Unification said that it is true that they have begun to resettle in
Aug. 17, 2016
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More info needed to analyze change over N.K. intelligence agency: Seoul
South Korea said Tuesday that more information is needed to analyze whether control of North Korea's intelligence agency has changed following the latest overhaul of its cabinet organization.The Ministry of State Security, Pyongyang's intelligence agency, was previously placed under the control of the powerful National Defense Commission before the country's parliament replaced the NDC with a newly created state apparatus named the State Affairs Commission in late June.The NDC previously had thr
Aug. 16, 2016
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UNICEF to conduct survey on living conditions in N. Korea
A U.N. aid agency plans to conduct a survey on the overall living conditions in North Korea, possibly providing a more accurate picture of the life confronting children and women there, a U.S. media reported Tuesday.The U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund will start its comprehensive survey this year to figure out health and nutrition conditions for children, women and other underprivileged people in the North, the Voice of America said, citing a spokesperson of the international agency
Aug. 16, 2016
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N. Korea's Choe didn't meet with Brazilian interim president: report
A close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Choe Ryong-hae, did not meet with Brazil's interim President Michel Temer during his stay in Rio de Janeiro, a U.S.-based media report said Tuesday, in another testimony to North Korea's false report of Choe's activities there.The Voice of America quoted former Brazilian Ambassador to North Korea Roberto Colin as saying that Choe and Temer never met.On Aug. 5, Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Choe met with Temer to deliver
Aug. 16, 2016
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North Korean media cranks up rhetoric for unification
North Korea's state media on Monday cranked up their rhetoric for reunification, calling it the "greatest undertaking" for all Koreans, while urging loyalty toward its leader Kim Jong-un.Marking the 71st anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, the North's media outlets also intensified their offensive against "hostile forces," berating them for isolating their country and undermining unification efforts."Unification is the most urgent, life-or-death, greatest undert
Aug. 15, 2016
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U.S. State Department to release report on North Korea's labor exports this week
The U.S. State Department is expected to submit a report to Congress this week that details North Korea's abuse of its people with overseas labor, including the list of countries and individuals that accept or use such labor, sources said.The planned report is the latest in a series of measures by Washington to increase pressure on Pyongyang over its human rights records. Last month, the U.S. imposed its first-ever sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for his roles in the country's human
Aug. 15, 2016