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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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North Korea to top agenda for Park-Obama summit: U.S. officials
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and U.S. President Barack Obama will reaffirm their commitment to North Korea's denuclearization and urge the communist nation not to conduct any provocations when they hold summit talks later this week, U.S. officials said Wednesday. North Korea is one of the "fundamental issues" that Park and Obama will be discussing during Friday's summit, along with enhancing the bilateral alliance and economic cooperation, as well as expanding cooperation on global issu
Oct. 15, 2015
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Pyongyang tolerates no religious freedom: annual U.S. report
North Korea tolerates no religious freedom and continues to deal harshly with those involved in "almost any religious practices," the U.S. State Department said in an annual religious freedom report Wednesday. "The constitution guarantees freedom of religion for its citizens and the country is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. However, religious freedom does not exist in practice," the department said in the 2014 International Religious Freedom Report. The repo
Oct. 15, 2015
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North Korea yet to miniaturize nuke warhead for ICBM
North Korea has yet to master the skills needed to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit onto inter-continental ballistic missiles, Vice Defense Minister Baek Seung-joo said Wednesday. In the massive military parade marking the ruling party's foundation anniversary last Saturday, North Korea displayed the KN-08 ICBMs tipped with a round warhead alongside 30 other types of weapons. The North introduced the missiles in the parade as one of the "diversified and miniaturized" strategic rocke
Oct. 14, 2015
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Pyongyang releases dam water before key anniversary
North Korea released dam water near the central part of the inter-Korean border last week apparently to secure power for celebrations of a key anniversary, causing South Korean fishermen below the border to flee the region, officials here said Wednesday. North Korea released water from the Hwanggang Dam on the Imjin River on the morning of Oct. 7, three days before it marked the 70th founding anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party with a massive military parade through Pyongyang. Water level
Oct. 14, 2015
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S. Korean officials to visit N. Korea for family reunion event
More than a dozen South Korean officials will visit North Korea this week to prepare for the upcoming family reunion event, the Unification Ministry said Wednesday.Families split by the 1950-53 Korean War and continued division of the Korean Peninsula are scheduled to reunite in special meetings to be held at Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast from Oct. 20-26. It's part of a deal reached at high-level talks in late August that deescalated heightened military tension at the time.The 14-membe
Oct. 14, 2015
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U.N. members push for new resolution calling for N. Koreas's referral to ICC: sources
South Korea, the United States and their like-minded partners have begun drafting a new U.N. resolution calling for referring the highest official responsible for North Korea's human rights violations to the International Criminal Court, a high-level diplomatic source said Tuesday.The move comes after the U.N. General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution last year that calls for the U.N. Security Council to refer North's human rights abuses to the ICC. The resolution led to the Security Counci
Oct. 14, 2015
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North Korean famine stunts youth growth: report
Severe malnutrition stemming from North Korea's devastating famine in the mid-1990s appears to have seriously undermined the growth of youths in the impoverished country, a report claimed Tuesday. According to the report by the Korea Development Institute, young people in the country between the ages of 15 through 21 underwent the famine during their critical formative years and may have had their growth stunted. The North was gripped by famine from 1994 to 2000, before the country's situation
Oct. 13, 2015
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Preparation for family reunions under way without hitch
South and North Korea have been preparing for the upcoming reunions of separated families without a hitch as repair work at facilities for the event will be completed as scheduled, the Unification Ministry said Tuesday. A group of South Korean technicians have been repairing facilities at Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast since late September in preparation for the reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War slated for Oct. 20-26. The repair work is set to be completed on Wed
Oct. 13, 2015
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Park renews calls for peaceful unification with North Korea
President Park Geun-hye renewed her calls Tuesday for a peaceful unification between South and North Korea. "Now, it's time to move toward a peaceful unification ... by ending the pain of the division," Park said in a video message to a forum on North Korean affairs. The Korean Peninsula was divided into the capitalistic South and communist North after its liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule. The two sides fought in the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
Oct. 13, 2015
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Pyongyang displays model of SLBM at flower exhibition
North Korea has displayed a model of a submarine-launched ballistic missile at a flower exhibition to celebrate its key anniversary, Pyongyang's state broadcast showed Tuesday. Unlike earlier expectations, the North did not showcase the SLBM, which it claimed it successfully fired off in May at its military parade Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. But Pyongyang made the SLBM model public at the exhibition displaying flowers named after
Oct. 13, 2015
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Koreas' labor unions settle on schedule for football competition in Pyongyang
Labor unions of the two Koreas have settled on the schedule for a friendly football competition in Pyongyang, officials in Seoul said Monday.The football event for labor workers from the Koreas will take place from Oct. 28 to 31 in the North Korean capital, officials from the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said.The dates were agreed upon at a working-level meeting in Gaeseong, north of the border, between the two sides. Workers from the two sides p
Oct. 12, 2015
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Koreas meet for joint dictionary project
South and North Korean lexicographers met at a scenic resort on the North's east coast Monday to discuss details over an ongoing project to publish a joint dictionary of their language, the Unification Ministry said. A group of 38 South Korean experts visited Mount Kumgang earlier in the day to hold eight-day talks with their North Korean counterparts over the contents of the dictionary, the ministry said. The joint dictionary project has been pursued in order to preserve Korea's cultural asse
Oct. 12, 2015
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Pyongyang uses military parade to boost solidarity, improve image: Seoul
North Korea appeared to use its recent massive military parade to strengthen solidarity for its leader, Kim Jong-un, and dispel its negative image, the Unification Ministry said Monday. The North's leader did not mention nuclear weapons during his rare public speech on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party. But a torchlight parade held on late Saturday expressed key words -- nukes and the economy -- of Kim's dual policy of developing nuclear weapons
Oct. 12, 2015
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PM calls for efforts to resolve separated families issue
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn called for efforts Monday to support the reunions of hundreds of thousands of families separated for decades across the Korean Peninsula by the 1950-53 Korean War. "The confirmation of life and death of all the members of the families, as well as exchanges of letters, regular meetings and hometown visits, should be made," Hwang told a ceremony commemorating the registration of a decades-old local TV program, which sought to reunite those families, to UNESCO's docume
Oct. 12, 2015
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U.S. Pacific commander says North Korea 'greatest threat'
The U.S. Pacific commander has said North Korea and its unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un are his command's biggest worries as the communist nation is pursuing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. "The greatest threat that I face on a day-to-day basis is the threat from North Korea because you have an unpredictable leader who is in complete command of his country and his military," Adm. Harry Harris Jr. said in a meeting with the Military Reporters and Editors Association. The North's
Oct. 12, 2015
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Pyongyang, Beijing to discuss new tour projects during expo
New tourism projects between North Korea and China will be on the agenda as the two nations are set to kick off their annual trade fair later this week, according to China's state-run media on Monday. North Korea and China have jointly held the trade fair in October since 2012 in the Chinese border city of Dandong, and this year's fair will be held from Thursday for four days. Citing organizers of the expo, China's Xinhua news agency reported that North Korea will send a 400-strong delegati
Oct. 12, 2015
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Pyongyang, Beijing seek to improve ties
North Korea’s celebrations of its ruling party’s foundation day went peacefully Saturday with no provocations and even no mention of nuclear arms in its leader Kim Jong-un’s highly anticipated speech at its largest military parade.North Korea displays the KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missiles and its latest weaponry during a massive military parade in Pyongyang marking the 70th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday. YonhapKim repeated his routine rhetoric against the
Oct. 11, 2015
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N. Korea unveils new, upgraded weapons
North Korea unveiled a set of new and upgraded weapons systems including an intercontinental ballistic missile during its largest military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday.Among the notable weapons was the apparently upgraded ICBM, called “KN-08,” which is presumed to be able to travel some 12,000 km ― far enough to strike the U.S. mainland. The missile was first revealed during a parade to mark the centennial birthday of the North’s la
Oct. 11, 2015
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S. Korea cautious over modified N.K. ballistic missile
South Korea's military said Sunday it is too early to judge whether North Korea's modified intercontinental ballistic missiles could carry a nuclear warhead.On Saturday, North Korea displayed KN-08 ICBMs with round warheads in a massive military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party. Previous displays of the missiles showed them with pointed warheads.The KN-08 is known to have a range of some 12,000 kilometers, which make it capable of striking the U.S. mainla
Oct. 11, 2015
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N. Korea stages huge military parade on party anniversary
North Korea staged what's believed to be the largest-ever military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party, state media showed, in a move to show off its military might.The North has hyped up the festive mood and promoted the accomplishments of its leader Kim Jong-un ahead of the anniversary.But it forewent provocative acts such as a long-range rocket launch, which the North has threatened to do so in recent weeks.Empty military vehicles
Oct. 10, 2015