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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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N. Korea's provocations top 60 times over past 5 years
North Korea has intensified its provocations both on the ground and on sea since last year, with its provocative acts reaching more than 60 over the past five years, the Ministry of National Defense said Thursday.North Korea committed a total of 64 cases of provocation between 2010 and 2015, including eight cases of border trespassing and five artillery provocations, the ministry said in a report to the parliamentary defense committee.The ministry said that the North began to resume intrusions a
Sept. 10, 2015
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Trump says he's against deal with N. Korea
U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said Wednesday he is against a deal with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. Trump made the brief comment when asked what he thinks about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons as he left a Washington rally opposing the landmark deal that the U.S. and five world powers reached with Iran to curb the Middle East nation's nuclear program."I would be essentially be against the deal," he said of a deal with Pyongyang without elaborating.Trump also blas
Sept. 10, 2015
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Red Cross picks 1st batch of candidates for family reunions
The Korean Red Cross said Wednesday it has conducted a computer-based selection for the first batch of 500 candidates for the upcoming reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.The move came as South and North Korea agreed Tuesday to hold the reunions for 100 separated families each from both sides on Oct. 20-26 at Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast.Out of about 66,000 surviving family members, 500 candidates were randomly picked by using a computer program based on principl
Sept. 9, 2015
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Major floods killed 89 people in N. Korea last month: Red Cross
Two major floods caused by heavy rainfall killed 89 people and left 10 people missing in North Korea last month, the International Federation of the Red Cross said Wednesday. North Korean authorities and the IFRC had previously reported that flash floods killed at least 40 people in the northern part of North Korea on Aug. 22-23, but the latest report by the IFRC revealed that the North suffered more extensive damage from flooding. The new IFRC report, citing information offered by North Korean
Sept. 9, 2015
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Activity significantly increases at N. Korea's nuclear site: 38 North
Activity at North Korea's main nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant has significantly increased, suggesting that Pyongyang is trying to produce new weapons-grade plutonium, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday.Satellite imagery taken on Aug. 22 shows brisk vehicular traffic "not previously observed" in front of the five-megawatt nuclear reactor and the nearby reprocessing plant at the country's Yongbyon nuclear complex, the website 38 North said."Significant vehicular traffic involving both
Sept. 9, 2015
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Xi sends message to NK leader on friendly ties, regional peace
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message to North Korea's leader to mark the 67th anniversary of the North Korean government's founding, hoping to consolidate their friendly ties and ensure regional peace, the North's media said Wednesday.Xi's message came as relations between Beijing and Pyongyang have been frayed following the North's nuclear test in early 2013 and missile tests. North Korea is China's only treaty ally.China's leader sent the congratulatory message to the North's young
Sept. 9, 2015
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Royce: Broadcasts into N. Korea one of most effective ways to bring about change
Providing North Korean people with correct information about their leaders and the outside world is one of the most effective ways to bring about change in the communist regime, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman said Tuesday."One of the issues that I'm looking at is what we can do to broadcast into North Korea more effectively. Radio broadcast, social media, pushing cheap wave transistor radios and low-cost communications, DVDs. Right now, South Korean DVDs, soap operas are very
Sept. 9, 2015
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China welcomes Koreas' deal on family reunion
China on Tuesday welcomed an agreement by South and North Korea to hold a reunion next month for families separated by the Korean War. Following overnight talks, Red Cross representatives from Seoul and Pyongyang agreed earlier in the day to hold reunions from Oct.20 to 26. The last reunions were held early last year. Asked about the agreement, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei replied, "We have noted these reports and welcome the decision made by the two sides to hold family reunions.
Sept. 8, 2015
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Koreas agree to hold family reunions in late Oct.
The two Koreas agreed Tuesday to hold reunions of families separated by the border from Oct. 20-26 at Mount Geumgangsan, facilitating the reconciliatory mood that emerged after last month’s landmark agreement to defuse military tensions. After overnight Red Cross talks at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjeom, they agreed to hold two sets of reunions of 100 family members from each side at the east coast resort. The reunions would be the first since February 2014.South and North Korea Re
Sept. 8, 2015
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NK leader meets with visiting ranking Cuban official
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with a visiting ranking Cuban official in a show of the two countries' friendly relations, the North's media said Tuesday.Kim has met with a Cuban delegation in Pyongyang, led by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and first vice-president of the Council of State, according to the Korean Central News Agency.The delegation's visit to the North is "of weighty significance" in in
Sept. 8, 2015
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Koreas locked in talks on reuniting separated families
South and North Korea have been struggling to press forward with their talks over the reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, officials here said Tuesday, following a recent landmark deal on easing military tension.The two Koreas have been holding Red Cross talks, which kicked off Monday, at the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss details, such as the date and the venue of the upcoming event, they said.The long-stretched discussion came as the two Koreas reached a historic ag
Sept. 8, 2015
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Two Koreas hold talks on family reunions
The two Koreas held working-level Red Cross talks Monday to arrange the reunions of families separated by the border, with Seoul viewing the meeting as a barometer of Pyongyang’s will to improve cross-border ties. An applicant consults officials at the Korean Red Cross headquarters in Seoul on Monday. (Yonhap)The talks at South Korea’s Peace House in the border village of Panmunjeom came after they agreed last month to hold the reunions around Chuseok, a major Korean holiday that falls on Sept.
Sept. 7, 2015
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N. Korea urges U.S. forces withdrawal from S. Korea
North Korea urged the United States on Monday to withdraw its forces from South Korea, saying that a recent inter-Korean deal on easing military tension shows their own capacity to protect the peace without outside help.North Korea has condemned the joint military drills between Seoul and Washington as a war rehearsal for invasion against the North, consistently calling on the U.S. to withdraw its 28,500 forces stationed in the South.An unidentified spokesman from North Korea's foreign ministry
Sept. 7, 2015
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N. Korea's all-female music band disappears from broadcasts
A popular all-female music band in North Korea has disappeared from the North's broadcasts since mid-July, spawning speculation over a possible breakup of the group created three years ago.The Moranbong Band, dubbed a North Korean girl group, was established in July 2012 by the North's young leader, Kim Jong-un, featuring Western-style music and outfits.Without clear reasons, the band's members have not appeared on programs aired by the North's Korean Central Television since July 15, with only
Sept. 7, 2015
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Senior N. Korean official's attendance at China parade reflects traditional friendship
The attendance of a senior North Korean official at a military parade marking the end of World War II in Beijing last week demonstrated a traditional friendship between the allies, the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea, Li Jinjun, has said. Choe Ryong-hae, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, attended the Chinese military parade Thursday, along with about 30 heads of state, including South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sept. 7, 2015
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Powell: N. Korea would be committing suicide if it used nuclear weapons
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that North Korea and Iran would be committing suicide if they used nuclear weapons.Powell, America's top diplomat from 2001-2005 in the administration of George W. Bush, made the remark on NBC's "Meet the Press" as he expressed support for the landmark nuclear deal that the administration of President Barack Obama struck with Iran."The North Korean deal was flawed from the 1994 original agreement all the way through, and after a while my vi
Sept. 7, 2015
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Koreas hold talks on family reunions
South and North Korea held working-level talks on Monday to arrange the reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War following their recent landmark deal on easing military tension, government officials said.Three South Korean officials kicked off a meeting with their North Korean counterparts earlier in the day at the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss details, such as the timing and the venue of the upcoming event, they said."We will do our best to meet the expectations and aspi
Sept. 7, 2015
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N. Korean magazine highlights Japan's wartime atrocities
A monthly magazine published by North Korea has highlighted the wartime atrocities committed by Japan during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula as Pyongyang gears up for a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North's ruling party.The August edition of the English-language "Pictorial Korea" magazine, recently obtained by Yonhap News Agency, carried a special article and some harrowing photos showing the bodies of Korean people who were "slaughtered mercilessl
Sept. 6, 2015
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N. Korea shows off medicine, food at China fair
CHANGCHUN, China, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- A total of 24 North Korean business entities took part in an annual trade fair hosted by China, showing off a range of food and medicine, including a blood thinner. The 10th China-Northeast Asia Expo in Changchun, the capital city of China's Jilin province that shares a border with North Korea, drew hundreds of companies from South Korea, North Korea, China, Russia, Mongolia and Japan. Among products displayed by North Korean firms were a blood thinner, an o
Sept. 5, 2015
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Seoul fumes at Pyongyang's criticism of Park
Unification Ministry spokesperson Jeong Joon-hee (Yonhap)South Korea chided North Korea Friday for criticizing President Park Geun-hye’s mention of the Aug. 4 land mine provocation during her summit with the Chinese leader, and for Pyongyang’s repeated moves to discredit the recent bilateral agreement to defuse border tensions.Seoul had refrained from trading barbs with Pyongyang to stably implement the Aug. 25 agreement including the resumption of reunions of families separated across the borde
Sept. 4, 2015