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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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NewJeans' singles, Japanese debut to proceed as planned, despite Hybe-Ador feud
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Experts raise concerns about Japan putting pressure on Naver over Line
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Samsung mobile chief, Google device head meet in Seoul
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South Korea to launch space security center under spy agency
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More med professors to take day off each week while govt. urges them to stay
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Hybe refutes Ador CEO Min's denial of breach of trust
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S. Korea, Japan could consider simplified entry agreement: Seoul official
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N.K. executes 15 top officials this year: NIS
North Korea has executed at least 15 senior officials this year alone including a vice forestry minister and four high-flying artists as leader Kim Jong-un continues his reign of terror apparently to cement his power, according to Seoul’s National Intelligence Service on Wednesday. N.K. leader Kim Jong-un gives a speech in Pyongyang. YonhapThe vice minister was killed after complaining about the current reforestation policy, as was the deputy chief of a national planning panel who opposed the y
April 29, 2015
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N. Korea executed 15 senior officials this year: spy agency
North Korea has killed 15 senior officials this year, two South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday, in the latest public executions in the communist country. In January, a vice forestry minister was executed for allegedly complaining about the country's forestation plan, the lawmakers told reporters after being briefed by South Korea's spy agency in a closed-door parliamentary session. In March, four members of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra were also executed on charges of espionage, Shin Kyoung
April 29, 2015
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N. Korean army deserters kill 3 Chinese citizens: report
BEIJING -- Three North Koreans believed to be army deserters killed three Chinese citizens in the border city of Helong last week, a Chinese media reported Wednesday.The Beijing News, citing a statement issued by a verified Weibo account of the propaganda department of Helong, said a manhunt has been under way. The incident took place on Friday just across the Tumen River dividing China and North Korea, according to the report. South Korean public broadcaster KBS reported the incident on Tuesday
April 29, 2015
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N.K. defector calls for Pyongyang's redesignation as terror sponsor, stronger sanctions
A North Korean defector-turned-activist said Monday he and other defectors will appeal to the United States to toughen sanctions and relist their former communist homeland as a terrorism sponsor for human rights violations. Kim Seong-min, head of Free North Korea Radio, based in Seoul, made the remark during a news conference to announce action plans for this week's North Korea Freedom Week, an annual set of events aimed at drawing international attention to Pyongyang's rights abuses. Kim Seon
April 28, 2015
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Seoul approves first fertilizer aid to North Korea since 2010
South Korea on Monday approved a civic group’s plan to provide fertilizers to the North, marking the first authorization of the politically sensitive aid since 2010. The decision will allow the Ace Gyeongam Foundation to shore up agriculture in Sariwon, the capital of North Hwanghae Province, by building an additional 50 greenhouses and providing 15 tons of fertilizers and other construction and farming materials. “They will provide technical support such as for establishing gardens and greenhou
April 27, 2015
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N. Korea improves coal shipment capacity at Rajin port
The North Korean port city of Rajin has improved its capacity to handle a second shipment of Russian coals, boosting confidence in the joint coal shipment project involving the two Koreas and Russia, Seoul officials said Monday. About 140,000 tons of Russian coal is expected to be transferred into South Korea on a ship from Rajin after being moved from Russia's border city of Khasan on a re-connected railway as a second pilot operation for the three-way logistics project. The shipment will be
April 27, 2015
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N. Korea's trade with China dips 13.4 pct in Q1
Trade between North Korea and China, its economic lifeline, slipped 13.4 percent on-year in the first three months of this year amid frayed bilateral ties, data showed Sunday. Bilateral trade volume fell to US$1.1 billion in the January-March period, compared with $1.27 billion for the same period last year, the Beijing unit of South's Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Agency said, citing Chinese customs data. China is North Korea's top economic benefactor, but its political ties with Pyo
April 26, 2015
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Kim Jong-un stresses combat readiness in military meeting
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stressed the importance of combat readiness at a recent military meeting, Pyongyang's state media reported Sunday, calling on his troops to place training ahead of everything else. Kim presided over the fifth meeting of training officers of the Korean People's Army on Friday and Saturday, according to the Korean Central News Agency. The participants discussed ways to bolster the North's combat capabilities, among other issues, the KCNA added. In his opening rema
April 26, 2015
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N. Korea denies human right abuses
North Korea said Saturday there are no human rights problems in the country, denouncing the United States for making unfounded accusations against it. "If the American-style 'standard of human rights' is universally accepted, the world will turn into a lawless one, tundra of human rights and the one of darkness," the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary.The paper also claimed that human rights issues are "non-existent" in the country.
April 25, 2015
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U.S. lawmakers pass resolution on divided Korean families
A U.S. congressional panel passed a resolution Thursday calling for the reunion of Korean Americans and their families in North Korea.The resolution, introduced by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), encourages Pyongyang to allow Koreans in the U.S. to meet with their family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. It "calls on North Korea to take concrete steps to build goodwill that is conducive to peace on the Korean Peninsula." It was unanimously approved by the House Fo
April 24, 2015
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Seoul urges Pyongyang to return to Gaeseong wage talks
South Korea Friday called on North Korea to resume talks over a prolonged wage row at a joint industrial park in the North following Pyongyang's unilateral move to hike wages.Friday is the renewed deadline by which 124 South Korean companies should pay the March wages to about 53,000 North Korean workers at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the border city of the same name.The two Koreas have been embroiled in the wage dispute as North Korea has unilaterally decided to hike the minimum monthly
April 24, 2015
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China seeks N. Korea's cooperation in Silk Road initiative
China has asked North Korea to join its ambitious Silk Road project to revive the ancient trade route between Asia and Europe.Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Li Jinjun, made the request on Tuesday when he held a meeting with North Korea's Minister of Foreign Trade, Ri Ryong-nam in Pyongyang, according to a statement posted on the website for the Chinese Embassy in North Korea. With a US$40 billion fund, China has aggressively pushed the so-called "One Belt, One Road" initiative aimed at build
April 24, 2015
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N. Korea won't be accepted as nuclear state: Russel
The United States and its partners in the nuclear talks with North Korea won't accept the communist nation as a nuclear state, a senior American diplomat said Thursday, as China reportedly increased its assessment of Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal.The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that China's top nuclear experts now estimate the North has already 20 warheads and is capable of producing enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by next year. American experts have recently estimate
April 24, 2015
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N. Korea creates special tour zone near Mt. Baekdu
North Korea said Thursday it has decided to establish a special tourist zone in a district near the peninsula's highest peak, a move seen as intended to earn hard currency.North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly on Wednesday promulgated a decree designating some areas of the Mubong workers' district near Mount Baekdu as the Mubong Special Zone for International Tour, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.The district, located in Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province, is well positio
April 23, 2015
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Activists bidding to cross DMZ want peace regime: organizer
Foreign activists' upcoming trek across the heavily fortified inter-Korean border could serve as the first step toward bringing lasting peace to the peninsula, the event's organizers said Thursday.About 30 female activists from around the world, including U.S. activist Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire from Ireland, plan to march from the North to the South across the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the two Koreas to mark International Women's Day for Peace and Disarm
April 23, 2015
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China warns of advance in N. Korea's nuclear capability: report
China's nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have as many as 20 nuclear warheads and can produce weapons-grade uranium to double its nuclear arsenal by next year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Chinese estimate of North Korea's nuclear capability, which was conveyed to U.S. nuclear scientists during a closed-door meeting in February, is above previous U.S. estimates of the North's nuclear arsenal. The report cited people who were briefed on the issue. North Ko
April 23, 2015
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N. Korea building military facility on border island: Seoul ministry
North Korea appears to be building a military facility on a tensely guarded Yellow Sea border island, Seoul's defense ministry said Thursday."We've spotted that construction is under way on the small island of Gal," defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in a regular briefing, citing the North Korean island just above the Northern Limit Line."Considering the fact that the island is uninhabited and located near the border, we believe that chances are high for the North to be building a mili
April 23, 2015
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Kim Jong-un to visit Moscow: Russian envoy
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will visit Moscow in May for World War II anniversary celebrations, a Russian diplomat said Thursday.Kim has been invited to attend the May 9 celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory in the war. If he visits Russia, it will be his first foreign trip since taking power in late 2011.Citing a Russian news report that quoted a top presidential official, Ambassador Alexander Timonin said Russia is expecting Kim's visit."His participation was confir
April 23, 2015
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S. Korea eases bar for aid donors to N. Korea
South Korea Wednesday said it has eased donor eligibility requirements to facilitate private groups' humanitarian aid to North Korea amid lingering inter-Korean tension.Seoul's ministry on inter-Korean affairs unveiled the decision to open more doors for the participation of private organizations at a time when the government's assistance to the North has stalled following the 2010 deadly warship sinking."Easing of the standards will help more non-government agencies increase aid to North Korea
April 22, 2015
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Abe urged to apologize for sex slavery in Congress speech
A group of U.S. congressmen Tuesday urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for Japan's wartime sex slavery when he addresses Congress next week.Abe is scheduled to make a speech at a joint meeting of the House and Senate when he visits Washington next week for summit talks with President Barack Obama, an honor that would make him the first-ever Japanese prime minister to do so.Critics have said Abe is unworthy of the privilege because he has attempted to whitewash Japan's militari
April 22, 2015