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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Top U.S. diplomat in Seoul for talks on Pyongyang's nuke test
The No. 2 U.S. diplomat arrived in Seoul Tuesday for talks with South Korean government officials mainly about ways to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear test.Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken is scheduled to meet with "senior officials of the Park Geun-hye administration" during his two-day stay, according to a U.S. embassy official who requested anonymity.Sources said he will meet with Park's top foreign affairs and national security aide, Kim Kyou-hyun, later in the day. On Wednes
Jan. 19, 2016
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[NEWS FOCUS] Multiple aims behind North Korea peace treaty calls
After its Jan. 6 nuclear test, North Korea is increasing calls for a peace treaty with the U.S. in apparent efforts to secure its regime survival, rationalize provocations, ease isolation and help economic development, analysts said Monday.Since the fourth nuclear test, North Korea’s state media have been churning out reports stressing the importance of a peace treaty and upbraiding the U.S. for escalating military tensions by disregarding Pyongyang's repeated requests for the treaty.Seoul has d
Jan. 18, 2016
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Top North Korean general seen as new point man on South Korea
A top North Korean military official, thought to be behind the North's deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010, is believed to have been tapped as a party secretary handling inter-Korean affairs, parliamentary sources said Monday.Gen. Kim Yong-chol, who has been leading the North's reconnaissance bureau, is likely to replace Kim Yang-gon, who died in a car accident in late December, as the secretary in charge of affairs with South Korea at the Workers' Party, the sources said.The Youido Institute,
Jan. 18, 2016
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North Korea sent 1 million anti-Seoul leaflets: ministry
North Korea has dispatched some 1 million anti-South propaganda leaflets in the past several days in apparent retaliation to Seoul’s recent restart of loudspeaker broadcasts across the border, the Defense Ministry here said Monday. The fliers -- first retrieved last Wednesday -- continued to be found in the northern parts of Seoul, Goyang, Paju and other Gyeonggi Province regions, the military and police said. There are several editions but most of them call for a halt of the broadcasts, threat
Jan. 18, 2016
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Pyongyang scattering propaganda leaflets into South daily: Defense Ministry
North Korea has been scattering propaganda leaflets into South Korea almost daily since the operation began early last week, the Defense Ministry said Monday."Since the first related news report, the North Korean military is spreading leaflets on almost a daily basis," ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in a regular briefing.The accumulated number of North Korean leaflets that have arrived in South Korea is reaching about 1 million and many of them have been collected, Kim noted. North Korea w
Jan. 18, 2016
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South Korean firms in Gaesong complex wary of nuke test impact
Located about a 10-minute drive from the tense inter-Korean border, a joint industrial complex in North Korea once again stands at the center of repeated but unwanted attention following the North's latest nuclear test.More than 120 South Korean firms running factories at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name remain skittish over repercussions by the North's abrupt test of a hydrogen bomb on their business activities.Tension has flared up on the Korean Penins
Jan. 18, 2016
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‘Comprehensive’ sanctions sought for N.K.
The vice ministers of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan agreed Saturday to push for a more “thorough and comprehensive” response over North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, calling on China to demonstrate its leadership and join their initiative. Seoul’s Vice Minister Lim Sung-nam gathered in Tokyo with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki as the three countries are ramping up efforts to rally the international community behind a new round of
Jan. 17, 2016
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Korea says China could use delaying tactics over U.N. resolution
A senior South Korean diplomat said Sunday that China could use delaying tactics over a looming U.N. resolution meant to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear test.The U.N. Security Council has been working on a new sanctions resolution against North Korea, which has already been under U.N. sanctions for its three previous nuclear tests: in 2006, 2009 and 2013.The previous sanctions have failed to stop North Korea from carrying out what it claimed was its first hydrogen bomb test earlier thi
Jan. 17, 2016
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With Iran’s return, North Korea conundrum only set to deepen
As Iran’s comeback to the international community boosts cautious optimism following the lifting of sanctions, North Korea remains the protruding nuclear conundrum for the U.S., but with no way out in the offing.Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left), director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano (center) of Japan andEuropean Union high representative Federica Mogherini (right), arrive at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday. (AP-Yonhap)Seoul, Washingt
Jan. 17, 2016
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North Korea increases education on its leader, English
North Korea has increased education on its young leader Kim Jong-un for its students, South Korean experts said Sunday, in what could be the North's latest efforts to strengthen its third-generation power succession.Kim has taken a series of steps to consolidate his grip on power that he inherited upon the death of his father and long-time leader, Kim Jong-il, in 2011. The current leader is the grandson of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung.A new education curriculum for primary, middle and high
Jan. 17, 2016
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After H-bomb test, N. Korea wants to focus on economy
After ringing in the new year with claims of its first successful hydrogen bomb test, North Korea is now calling on the United States and the world community to accept it as a nuclear power, jettison the pursuit of punitive sanctions and allow it to focus on what it really wants: build up the nation's troubled economy.While waiting to see what kind of new sanctions might be imposed by the United States, the United Nations and others, North Korean officials say that with the test now out of the w
Jan. 16, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S. vow concerted efforts against N.K. nuke
South Korea and the United States agreed Saturday to push for "strong and comprehensive" sanctions against North Korea against its latest nuclear test, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.The discussion was made during a bilateral meeting between South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken in Tokyo ahead of their trilateral talks involving Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki due later in the day.Earlier this month, North Korea carried out an
Jan. 16, 2016
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North Korea demands peace treaty for stopping nuke tests
North Korea says it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. The North's statement is a repeat of past offers that have been rejected by the U.S., which wants Pyongyang to commit to a complete abandonment of nuclear weapons.The state media late Friday carried the statement by an unnamed spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry, who called the purported hydrogen bomb test on Jan. 6
Jan. 16, 2016
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Police recover more N.K. propaganda fliers
South Korean police on Friday recovered over 10,000 propaganda leaflets sent by North Korea in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, some 20 kilometers northwest of Seoul. Anti-South Korea leaflets sent by North Korea (Yonhap)The leaflets are believed to be in response to the resumption of Seoul’s anti-Pyongyang broadcasts near the inter-Korean border last week, the first punitive step against the communist regime’s recent fourth nuclear test. According to officials, 20 balloons carrying the fliers were sp
Jan. 15, 2016
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‘China to join UN resolution for N.K. sanctions’
Seoul on Friday stepped up its efforts to enlist Beijing’s support for the adoption of stringent sanctions to punish Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test during talks between its senior defense and diplomatic officials and their Chinese counterparts.Seoul hosted regular working-level defense policy talks with Beijing for the first time since Pyongyang’s purported hydrogen bomb test last Wednesday. During the talks, the Chinese side said it would join a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution,
Jan. 15, 2016
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Top N.K. official returns to public eye after 3-month absence
Choe Ryong-hae, a senior Pyongyang official, has resumed public activities about three months after he was reportedly sent to a rural farm for punishment, the North's media showed Friday.Choe, a secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is believed to have been receiving re-education at a farm since November as punishment for his mishandling of a newly built hydroelectric power plant project according to intelligence officials here.Choe's disappearance from the public eye had spawned spec
Jan. 15, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan set for high-level talks on N. Korea
South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam headed Friday to Tokyo for talks with his American and Japanese counterparts largely on North Korea.The significance of security cooperation among the regional powers has grown since the North's nuclear test last week.The U.N. Security Council is working on a resolution to impose new sanctions on Pyongyang. The three nations are also exploring ways to counter the North's nuclear and missile threats more effectively.In Tokyo, Lim plans to pay a cour
Jan. 15, 2016
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THAAD has role to play
The United States believes that the THAAD missile defense system has a role to play in East Asia in terms of deterrence and force protection, a senior White House official said Thursday.Jon Wolfsthal, senior director for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Security Council, made the remark during a security seminar in response to a question about calls for more missile defense in the region, including the possibility of THAAD deployment to South Korea, in the wake of North Korea's
Jan. 15, 2016
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N. Korea making progress in light-water reactor construction
Recent satellite imagery shows North Korea has made progress in construction of a light water nuclear reactor at the Yongbyon complex, a U.S. research institute said Thursday.New developments in reactor construction over the past six months included the completion of two channels feeding water for its cooling system and the completion of the reactor's electric transformer yard, the North-monitoring website 38 North said.Those developments indicate the reactor "is edging closer to becoming operat
Jan. 15, 2016
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No. 2 U.S. diplomat to visit S. Korea for talks on N.K. nuclear test
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken will visit South Korea next week for discussions on how to deal with North Korea in the wake of its fourth nuclear test, both countries announced Thursday.The No. 2 American diplomat will be in Seoul Jan. 19-20 and meet with First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said in a release. He is also expected to hold a meeting with Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.His discussions in Seoul are expected to focus on ways to punish Pyongya
Jan. 15, 2016