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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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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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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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S. Korea blocks N. Korea's participation in martial arts competition: report
The South Korean government has blocked North Korea's participation in a martial arts competition here in September, after Pyongyang accepted an invitation, a Washington-based news media report said Wednesday.According to Voice of America, the organizers of World Martial Arts Masterships asked George Vitale, the spokesman of the North Korea-led International Taekwondo Federation, to check whether North Korean taekwondo practitioners are willing to participate in its inaugural event in Cheongju,
July 27, 2016
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S. Korean deputy national security adviser in U.S. for talks about pressuring N. Korea
South Korea's deputy national security adviser, Cho Tae-yong, arrived in Washington on Tuesday for talks with U.S. officials about how better to pressure North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs.Cho is scheduled to meet with Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Wednesday for the third round of high-level strategic talks on North Korea that were established under an agreement President Park Geun-hye reached with U.S. President Barack Obama at their summit in October."Having the same
July 27, 2016
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U.S. urges N. Korea to refrain from destabilizing rhetoric
The United States urged North Korea on Tuesday to refrain from destabilizing rhetoric and actions after Pyongyang's top diplomat threatened the country could conduct yet another nuclear test depending on the "U.S.' attitude."North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho made the remark to reporters in Laos on the sidelines of a regional security forum, arguing that what he calls the U.S. "hostile policy" toward the North is increasingly becoming severe.Ri also said the "biggest hostile act" by the U.
July 27, 2016
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Additional nuke test depends 'entirely' on Washington: N.K.'s top diplomat
North Korea's top diplomat blamed the United States Tuesday for dashing hopes for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, saying that whether or not there will be additional nuclear tests depends "entirely" on Washington's attitude.In a hastily-arranged press meeting after attending a regional security gathering held in the Laotian capital, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho also demanded U.S. troops pull out of South Korea altogether."It is the U.S.' hostile policy that is making the cu
July 27, 2016
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N.K. has no plans for press conference after ARF, decision remains up to Ri: N.K. official
A North Korean official said Tuesday that the North has no plans at the moment to hold an official press conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific countries' meetings underway in Laos, but it could have a chance to let its position be known before the end of the gathering.Asked if there is a press conference, the official accompanying North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told a group of reporters, "We don't have enough time for it, but the decision is up to the minister.""I don't know
July 26, 2016
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Unification minister says now is not the time for dialogue with Pyongyang
South Korea's unification minister said Tuesday now is not the right time to hold talks with North Korea as Pyongyang continues to ramp up its saber-rattling over Seoul's decision to deploy an advanced U.S. anti-missile defense system in the country. On July 19, a week after it warned of "physical" counter-actions against the decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea by 2017, Pyongyang test-fired three ballistic missiles and made cle
July 26, 2016
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Former N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il's widow purged: RFA
Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's widow appears to have been purged by the Kim Jong-un regime, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said Tuesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the reclusive country.A Chinese businessman, fresh from his recent visit to Pyongyang, told the RFA that Kim Ok, 52, the fourth wife of the deceased leader, was sent to a political prison camp within a year of her step-son taking power. The incumbent leader inherited the country following the sudden death of his f
July 26, 2016
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Regional security forum to kick off with NK nuke likely to dominate agenda
Top diplomats from nearly 30 Asia-Pacific countries and regional powers will meet Tuesday to discuss regional security issues such as North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The ASEAN Regional Forum, the largest regional security gathering, will be attended by foreign ministers from the 10 members of the Association of Northeast Asian Nations and top officials from other parts of Asia, North America, Europe and Oceania.The ARF is a rare international occasion attended by the North along with all
July 26, 2016
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N. Korea's Air Koryo seems to be operating regular Pyongyang-Jinan route: VOA
North Korea's national carrier Air Koryo appears to have opened a regular flight service between Pyongyang and China's eastern city of Jinan for what seemed to be the transport of Chinese tourists, a Washington-based news media report said Tuesday.According to Voice of America, the North Korean flag carrier recently launched regular flights between the two cities twice a week, raising speculations the North Korean jet may be transporting Chinese tourists to the reclusive country.VOA said that Ai
July 26, 2016
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Seoul to set up N. Korean human rights foundation
South Korea will establish a foundation in September to better study human rights situations in North Korea and develop related policies, the unification ministry said Monday.The government plans to inject about 25 billion won ($22 million) annually into the 50-member foundation under the North Korean Human Rights Act, which is set to take effect Sept. 4 and designed to improve human rights abuses in the reclusive country, according to the ministry in charge of Seoul's Pyongyang policy.A group o
July 25, 2016
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U.N. Security Council unlikely to issue statement condemning N.K. missile launches
The U.N. Security Council appears unlikely to issue a statement condemning North Korea's latest ballistic missile launches, spurring speculation that China may be uncooperative in anger over a decision to deploy the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea.Right after the North launched three ballistic missiles last Tuesday, the U.S. government said it will "raise our concerns at the U.N. to bolster international resolve in holding the DPRK accountable for these provocative actions." The DPRK
July 25, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Activist-turned-scholar urges action on N.K. abductees
On April 29, 1992, South Korea’s top intelligence agency arrested dozens of activists for plotting to overthrow the government by building underground socialist organizations. The authorities described the groups as the biggest antistate entity ever established in the country’s modern history. One of those arrested was Baik Tae-ung, who served as leader of the South Korean Socialist Coalition of Workers or “Sanomaeng” in Korean. Despite the plea that he was exercising the right to political free
July 22, 2016
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N. Korea's Air Koryo airplane makes emergency landing in China due
An airplane of North Korea's flag carrier Air Koryo made an emergency landing in the Chinese city of Shenyang on Friday due to fire, a Chinese report said.The flight en route from Pyongyang to Beijing "made a forced landing in China's northeastern city of Shenyang because the plane caught fire," said Xinhua News Agency, citing a passenger on board.Referring to flight tracking websites, Japan's Kyodo News later added that the Tupolev Tu-204 plane "diverted shortly after crossing over the border b
July 22, 2016
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Gov't bolsters countermeasures to deter N.K. cyberattacks
South Korea is beefing up its governmentwide countermeasures to prevent possible cyberattacks by North Korea, officials said Friday.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the number of cyberattacks by North Korea more than doubled in the first half of this year. The cyberattacks "are judged as a part of North Korean provocations to trigger public anxiety" in South Korea, the ministry said. Last month, South Korean police said North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at
July 22, 2016
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Gov't bolsters countermeasures to deter N.K. cyberattacks
South Korea is beefing up its governmentwide countermeasures to prevent possible cyberattacks by North Korea, officials said Friday.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the number of cyberattacks by North Korea more than doubled in the first half of this year. The cyberattacks "are judged as a part of North Korean provocations to trigger public anxiety" in South Korea, the ministry said. Last month, South Korean police said North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at
July 22, 2016
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N. Korea's economy shrank 1.1% in 2015: BOK
North Korea's economy is estimated to have contracted 1.1 percent last year amid negative growth in most industries, South Korea's central bank announced Friday.The Bank of Korea has issued an annual report on the estimated gross domestic product of one of the world's most secretive nations.It said the communist country's GDP shrank 1.1 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, the first negative growth since 2010.The bank cited a drop in crop and mining output by 0.8 percent and 2.6 percent, respect
July 22, 2016
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One North Korean missile exploded in initial stage of latest launch
One of the three ballistic missiles recently test-fired by North Korea likely exploded in the air during its initial stage of flight due to some sort of malfunction, military officials familiar with the matter said Friday.According to military sources, one of the three missiles blew up at an altitude of less than 30 kilometers, though two others flew 500-600 km from Hwangju, south of Pyongyang, across the communist country before hitting the East Sea early this week."Pyongyang's claim to have us
July 22, 2016
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Activist group sends anti-Pyongyang leaflets
A civic group comprised of North Korean defectors on Friday said it sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets via balloons across the inter-Korean border earlier this week, amid escalating military tensions in the Korean Peninsula.The Fighters for Free North Korea said it sent some 300,000 leaflets from Gimpo, just west of Seoul, on Thursday, criticizing the North's test-firing of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile and the launch of short-rage Scuds. It said 10 members of the U.S.-based civic g
July 22, 2016
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S. Korea seeks to highlight N. Korea's nuke threats at regional security meeting
South Korea will make a strong push to highlight the threats that North Korea's nuclear ambitions are posing both to the Asian region and the global community as a whole during the upcoming regional security meeting, observers and government officials said Friday.Top diplomats from 27 Asia-Pacific countries and the European Union are scheduled to meet in Vientiane for a series of talks led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations starting this weekend. South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byu
July 22, 2016
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U.S. institute claims discovery of secret N. Korean uranium facility
A U.S. research institute on Thursday said it has located a suspected secret nuclear facility that North Korea used in the early stages of its uranium enrichment program."Recent information suggests that an early centrifuge research and development facility was located at the Panghyon Aircraft Plant, at or near the Panghyon Air Base, which is located about 45 kilometers west of the Yongbyon nuclear site," the Institute for Science and International Studies said in a report. "This is a preliminar
July 22, 2016