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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Power shortage results in North Korea's protracted economic recession: think tank
Severe power shortages have driven North Korea into a protracted economic slump for the past decade amid the reclusive country's focus on building up its nuclear weapons program, a state-run think tank said Sunday."North Korea's decadeslong economic slump is apparently due to the regime's inefficiency and military tensions stemming from Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions," the Korea Development Institute said in its latest report. "But power shortages are the main cause of the economic recession."Nor
May 15, 2016
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North Korean leader puts off mock attack on South Korea's presidential office
North Korea's leader may have put off carrying out a mock attack on South Korea's presidential office, right after the country concluded its rare ruling party congress, intelligence sources here said Sunday.Seoul had warned ahead of the four daylong Workers' Party of Korea event that ended Monday that there was a chance that North Korea could show off an artillery attack on a mock-up of Cheong Wa Dae.South Korean intelligence confirmed that the North built a scaled-down replica of the presidenti
May 15, 2016
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North Korea's Kim visits tree nursery in 2nd public appearance since congress
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a tree nursery in his second public field inspection since he was appointed the chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea last week, according to the country's state news outlet on Sunday.The North's Korean Central News Agency said in a report that Kim made a field guidance to the Tree Nursery No. 122 of the Korean People's Army near Pyongyang that recently upgraded its facilities. The newswire did not date Kim's visit, but this was Kim's second p
May 15, 2016
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N. Korea's Kim visits machinery exhibition in 1st public appearance since congress
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a machinery exhibition in his first public field inspection since he was appointed the chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea earlier this week, according to the country's state news outlet on Friday."Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, went around the exhibition of machinery and equipment manufactured as labor gifts of loyalty to be presented to the congress of the motherly party," the North's Korean Central News Agency said
May 13, 2016
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N. Korea won't test nukes if peace treaty talks open: experts
North Korea will refrain from testing nuclear weapons if China and the United States engage Pyongyang in talks to improve ties and ultimately sign a peace treaty, experts said Thursday.Speculation has been rife over when North Korea will carry out another nuclear test following the fourth one in January that prompted stronger international sanctions against the regime.Many observers expected the fifth test to come ahead of this month's congress of the ruling Workers' Party, which was used as a v
May 12, 2016
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N. Korea appoint foreigner to lead nat'l football team: report
North Korea have reportedly appointed former Bundesliga top scorer Jorn Andersen to lead their national football team, Norwegian media reported on Wednesday (local time).According to Norway's state broadcaster NRK, Andersen signed a one-year contract with North Korea. His family told NRK that the 53-year-old coach had been in the communist state for two weeks.They said that North Korea had been looking for a German coach.Andersen, who was born in Fredrikstad, southern Norway, became a German cit
May 12, 2016
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Kenneth Bae calls for greater international attention to suffering of N.K. people
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American man who spent two years at a North Korean labor camp, called Wednesday for greater attention to the people of the communist nation, saying he had a first-hand look at how they are suffering in "darkness."Bae was detained in the North from 2012 to 2014 after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for carrying a hard drive with anti-North Korean material. In November 2014, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a secret trip to Pyongyang and bro
May 12, 2016
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N. Korea may be trying to entice Obama or successor into bogus nuclear negotiations: ex-U.S. ambassador
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's call for global denuclearization could be part of a ploy to entice either the fading administration of President Barack Obama or his successor into negotiations over its nuclear weapons program, a former U.S. ambassador said Wednesday.John Bolton, who served as top U.S. envoy to the U.N. in 2005-2006, made the point in an article contributed to the Boston Herald, calling for caution in dealing with a regime that has a track record of violating a series of agreem
May 12, 2016
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Air Koryo's scheduled Kuwait flights halted since February: NK News
North Korea's national airline, Air Koryo, has not operated its scheduled Pyongyang to Kuwait route since February, a U.S.-based Internet media report said Wednesday, apparently affected by the tightening of international sanctions.Quoting data from FlightRadar24, which provides flight information around the world, NK News reported the North Korean flag carrier's Pyongyang-Kuwait route by JS161 and return flightJS162 was last made on Feb. 23 and 24. The North Korean flight normally conducts a tr
May 11, 2016
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N. Korean hydropower dam leaking shortly after completion: sources
A North Korean hydropower plant, which has been touted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as one of the major accomplishments of the communist country, started to leak shortly after its completion last month, sources said Wednesday.The hydropower dam, located in North Korea's Yangang Province bordering China, has cracks and part of its walls appears to have collapsed, resulting in water leaks, according to satellite imagery dated May 8, which was obtained by Yonhap News Agency.The image also sho
May 11, 2016
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Trump's name brandishes South Korea's high-rise buildings
Presumptive U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump has his real estate footprints in South Korea as well, having lent his name to a construction company from the late 1990s to use on high-rise residential buildings in what was his first such arrangement with a foreign firm.Daewoo Engineering & Construction (Daewoo E&C), then a builder unit of the larger Daewoo Group, first partnered with Trump in September 1997 to erect the Trump World Tower in Manhattan, close to the U.N. headquarters in New Yo
May 11, 2016
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N. Korea shows no indications of impending nuclear test: 38 North
Vehicles are no longer visible at the command center of North Korea's nuclear test site, a U.S. website monitoring the communist nation said Tuesday, brushing aside what was previously considered a possible sign of nuclear test preparations.Four vehicles were seen at the center in last week's satellite imagery of the North's Punggye-ri test site, sparking speculation it could be a sign that the North is preparing to conduct what would be its fifth nuclear test, just a few months after the fourth
May 11, 2016
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No vehicles seen at command center of N.K. nuclear test site: 38 North
Vehicles are no longer visible at the command center of North Korea's nuclear test site, a U.S. website monitoring the communist nation said Tuesday, brushing aside what was previously considered a possible sign of nuclear test preparations.Four vehicles were seen at the center in last week's satellite imagery of the North's Punggye-ri test site, sparking speculation it could be a sign that the North is preparing to conduct what would be its fifth nuclear test, just a few months after the fourth
May 11, 2016
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U.S. expert calls for serious consideration of N. Korea's dialogue offer
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's proposal to hold military talks with South Korea should be considered seriously as it offers a chance to keep tensions under control ahead of August's U.S.-South Korea military exercises, a U.S. expert said Tuesday.The North's leader made the dialogue offer during the Workers' Party Congress over the weekend, saying the two sides could use such talks to discuss ways to remove risks of clashes along the border and ease tensions as well as other issues of mutual c
May 11, 2016
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N. Korea holds mass celebration to mark key party congress
North Korea held a mass celebration to mark the closing of the four daylong ruling party congress in central Pyongyang on Tuesday, attracting leader Kim Jong-un and the party's newly appointed group of top echelons.The ruling Worker's Party of Korea congress that concluded Monday gave Kim the chairmanship at the party and revised the party's rules to further consolidate Kim's status as the supreme party leader.The revised rules also stipulate that as the WPK's chairman, Kim represents and leads
May 10, 2016
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'Comrade' omitted from Chinese president's message to Kim Jong-un
The term "comrade" was not used for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a message sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping to congratulate Kim on his election as chairman of the North's ruling party. China's state-controlled media on Tuesday reported that Xi sent the message written in Chinese to Kim, but the term was not used to address the North Korean head. In an English-language article, China's official Xinhua News Agency also reported that Xi "congratulated Kim Jong-un on his election as chairm
May 10, 2016
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N. Korea holds mass celebration to mark key party congress
North Korea held a mass celebration in the center of Pyongyang on Tuesday to mark the end of its ruling party congress that conferred on its leader Kim Jong-un a new title.The four-day congress that concluded on Monday gave Kim the chairmanship of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and revised the party's rule to stipulate that Kim is its supreme leader.It added that as the WPK's chairman, Kim represents and leads the whole party.The new title adds to Kim's already long list of top positi
May 10, 2016
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China's Xi sends congratulatory letter to N. Korea's Kim Jong-un
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has been given the new title of the chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea during a key party congress, the North's state media said Tuesday.The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Xi sent the letter to Kim on Monday. The key party congress, the first in 36 years, opened Friday and ended Monday. In the letter, Xi said he offers "fervent" congratulations to Kim on behalf
May 10, 2016
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N.K. adopts decision to elect its leader as ruling party's chairman
North Korea has adopted a decision to elect its leader Kim Jong-un as the chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the North's state media said Tuesday, a move aimed at bolstering the leader's tight control on power.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the North's leader was elected to the "top post" of the ruling party -- chairman of the WPK -- at the first party congress in 36 years, which concluded its four-day run Monday.The country revised its party rules, which stip
May 10, 2016
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U.S., S. Korea should demonstrate N. Korea won't be recognized as nuclear state: U.S. expert
North Korea appears to believe the international community will end up recognizing it as a nuclear state, and it's important for the United States and South Korea to demonstrate that it will never be the case, a U.S. expert said Monday.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told the Workers' Party Congress on Sunday that he will "permanently" defend the pursuit of his trademark "byeongjin" policy" of simultaneously seeking nuclear and economic development, making clear that he has no intentions to give
May 10, 2016