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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Heritage Foundation report classifies N. Korea as gravest threat to U.S. interests
North Korea poses the greatest threat to the United States, an annual Heritage Foundation report said Wednesday, warning that the communist nation likely has already mastered the technology to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.The 2016 Index of U.S. Military Strength classified North Korea as a "severe" threat to vital U.S. interests, the highest in the five-level threat assessment scale, while putting Russia, China and Afghanistan-Pakistan terrorism in the second-highest "high" threat category
Oct. 29, 2015
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Ex-U.N. panel chief calls for renewed attention on N.K.
The former head of a U.N. investigative panel on North Korea's human rights issue called Tuesday for renewed international attention to the problem, saying looking away from the issue amounts to turning away from what the Nazis did in the 1930s.Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who headed the U.N. Commission of Inquiry that looked into the North's human rights violations, made the appeal during a seminar in Washington, saying the issue has been overshadowed by the Islamic State and other
Oct. 28, 2015
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S. Korea approves labor unions' football match in N. Korea
South Korea has approved its labor workers' visit to North Korea for an inter-Korean friendly footballcompetition in Pyongyang this month, the Unification Ministry said Tuesday.The labor unions of the two Koreas have agreed to hold the football event starting Wednesday to run until Saturday in the North Korean capital city, according to the South's Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.It will be the first friendly football match between labor workers fro
Oct. 27, 2015
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S. Korean civilian group gives fertilizer, other aid to N. Korea
A South Korean civilian group crossed the inter-Korean border Tuesday to provide fertilizer and other assistance needed for a greenhouse project in North Korea, relevant company officials said.Representatives from Ace Gyeongam, the foundation run by bed maker Ace, visited North Korea for the first time in six months earlier in the day to deliver items necessary for running greenhouses in Sariwon, about 70 kilometers southeast of Pyongyang, according to the officials."Most of the materials are gr
Oct. 27, 2015
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S. Korean Catholic priests make 1st visit to N.K. in 7 years
A progressive group of South Korean Catholic priests will return home Tuesday, wrapping up their first visit to North Korea in seven years for a special Mass, government officials said.A 12-member delegation of the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice flew into Pyongyang on Friday from Beijing for a five-day stay in the North to attend a Mass for inter-Korean reunification, according to officials from the Unification Ministry.The visit marked the first since September 2008, when the group t
Oct. 27, 2015
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Pentagon used NGO for espionage missions in N. Korea: report
The U.S. Defense Department declined comment Monday on a news report that it had secretly funded a nongovernmental aid group to carry out espionage missions in North Korea by using its access to the communist nation gained in the name of providing humanitarian assistance.The online news outlet The Intercept reported earlier in the day that the Pentagon provided Humanitarian International Services Group with millions of dollars under a secret intelligence gathering program launched in 2004 until
Oct. 27, 2015
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Family reunions end with hopes for reunification
MOUNT GEUMGANGSAN, North Korea -- The three-day reunions for the members of 90 families, separated by the border, ended Monday with overwhelming sadness and dim hopes that reunification would happen during their lifetime. Separated familities bid farewell as South Korean members leave for home at the end of their reunions in Mount Geumgangsan Monday. (Yonhap)Many of the participants, mostly in their 80s and 90s, broke down in tears as their loved ones were led to board their homebound buses that
Oct. 26, 2015
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Koreas' separated families bid tearful farewell
Korean family members torn by the 1950-53 Korean War bid a tearful farewell to their relatives in North Korea on Monday after days of the much-awaited but short reunions.A total of 90 families, or about 250 South Koreans, joined the last session of reunions with their family members in North Korea earlier in the day at a resort on Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast.The first group of 96 South Korean families bade farewell Thursday after reuniting with their relatives in the North from Tuesd
Oct. 26, 2015
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N.K. patrol ship violates NLL
A North Korean patrol ship crossed the maritime border into the South on Saturday during a beefed-up crackdown on Chinese fishing boats operating near the border, the South Korean military said Sunday. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Lee Sun-jin shakes hands with troops at a unit on the country’s frontline island of Yeonpyeongdo on Oct. 9. (Yonhap)The South Korean Navy ship fired five warning shots with a 40 mm-caliber gun. The ship retreated to the North 18 minutes after the s
Oct. 25, 2015
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Abductee, mother reunited in N.K.
MOUNT GEUMGANGSAN, North Korea -- Despite more than 40 years of separation, it took Jeong Geon-mok, 64, from North Korea just seconds to recognize her frail, gray-haired mother in a wheelchair as the second round of reunions of separated families began Saturday.Jeong Geon-mok (left) from North Korea wipes the tears from his South Korean mother Lee Bok-sun’s face during the second round of family reunions at Geumgangsan Hotel in North Korea on Saturday. (Yonhap)Right after entering the venue for
Oct. 25, 2015
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S. Korea fires warning shots at N. Korean patrol boat
South Korea has fired machine gun rounds at a North Korean patrol boat that crossed into its waters in the Yellow Sea, the South's military said Sunday, threatening the conciliatory mood created by the second round of family reunions taking place in the North.The South Korean Navy fired five warning shots at the vessel around 3:30 p.m. Saturday after it crossed the de-facto western maritime border between the two Koreas known as the Northern Limit Line by hundreds of meters.The boat was supposed
Oct. 25, 2015
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Second round of family reunions in N. Korea in high gear
Hundreds of South Koreans privately met with their loved ones from North Korea in their hotel rooms Sunday, as part of the second round of reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.The 254 South Koreans, or 90 families, met their North Korean relatives for the first time in six decades Saturday at a scenic resort on Mount Kumgang in North Korea.A two-hour lunch is planned at Kumgangsan Hotel later Sunday, with another two-hour group reunion wrapping up the day at 4:30 p.m.This eve
Oct. 25, 2015
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Korean families reunited after over six decades of separation
MOUNT GEUMGANGSAN, North Korea, -- Hundreds of elderly South and North Korean separated family members met with each other for the first time on Saturday since the 1950-53 Korean War in long-awaited and tearful family reunions. Kim Wol-soon, 93, from South Korea is reunited with her 72-year-old son Ju Jae-eun from the North during the second round of family reunions at Mount Geumgangsan, North Korea, on Saturday. (Yonhap)The second batch of 90 families or about 250 South Koreans, many of them in
Oct. 24, 2015
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Hundreds of S. Koreans leave for N.K. for family reunions
Hundreds of South Koreans left for North Korea on Saturday to meet with their loved ones in North Korea that they have not seen since the 1950-53 Korean War.A group of 90 families or about 250 South Koreans were to arrive at a resort on Mount Geumgangsan on the North's east coast to have reunions with their North Korean relatives from Saturday to Monday.The upcoming event follows the previous three-day reunion that involved another 96 families that ended Thursday at the scenic resort on the Nort
Oct. 24, 2015
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S. Korea to push for talks with N. Korea after family reunions: NSC chief
South Korea will push for inter-Korean government and red cross talks in the near future after the on-going event of family reunions, Seoul's security adviser said Friday."Regarding the South-North agreement, we will go ahead with government-level talks some time after the family reunion, although we haven't decided the exact time yet, along with the red cross talks," Kim Kwan-jin, the chief of the National Security Council, said in a parliamentary audit.In the landmark Aug. 25 deal ending a mil
Oct. 23, 2015
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Religious leaders of two Koreas to gather in North Korea next month
Religious leaders in South Korea will visit North Korea next month to hold a joint event for peace with their counterparts in the communist country, a religious group said Friday.Some 150 men from the South's seven major religious groups, including Protestants, the Catholic Church and Buddhism, will cross the border to Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast to hold the South-North Korean believers' peace event from Nov. 9-10, according to the Korean Conference on Religion and Peace."During the
Oct. 23, 2015
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Seoul open to bilateral nuclear talks with Pyongyang
South Korea pressed North Korea Friday to hold bilateral talks on its nuclear program, saying Seoul is committed to playing a more active role in addressing the matter."We intend to meet a responsible North Korean official, in charge of the nuclear issue, anytime and anywhere," the South's top nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook said at an international conference on diplomacy attended by a number of foreign diplomats and scholars.With such direct dialogue, the two Koreas "will be able to overcome dif
Oct. 23, 2015
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USFK well-equipped to counter North Korea's huge artillery threats: 2ID commander
The United States Forces Korea's 2nd Infantry Division is equipped well enough to counter North Korea's artillery threats, and its counter-fire capabilities will remain the same even after the planned relocation of its base near the border down south, the division commander said."North Korean long-range artillery is a huge threat to stability in the area," said Maj. Gen. Theodore Martin, commanding general of the 2ID, whose mission is to defend South Korea in the initial stages of a potential in
Oct. 23, 2015
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U.S. continues to review whether to add North Korea back to terrorism sponsor list: Amb. Sung Kim
The United States continues to review intelligence to determine whether to put North Korea back on the list of states that sponsor terrorism, Washington's top envoy on the communist nation said Thursday.Amb. Sung Kim, special representative for North Korea policy, made the remark in a written statement submitted for a terrorism subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as he outlined U.S. policy on the communist nation. "We also continually review the available intelligence to
Oct. 23, 2015
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Reunions end with emotional farewell
MOUNT GEUMGANGSAN, North Korea ― Fleeting encounters, tearful recollections and joyful conversations turned into painful sobs and aching hearts as members of the 91 separated families boarded homebound buses that would divide them from their loved ones again, indefinitely.“Make sure that you stay healthy. It took us 65 years to be reunited, but we will soon meet again,” Lim Hak-kyu, 80, from the South shouted as his 85-year-old sister, Lim Ri-gyu, held out her hand through the bus window.Park Yo
Oct. 22, 2015