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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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First-ever meeting of president, opposition chief set to finally happen
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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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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Ship linked to NK arms shipments to Russia is moored in China: State Dept.
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N. Korea's children suffer from severe malnutrition: report
One of six North Korean children under age 5 have been suffering from chronic malnutrition, a report showed Wednesday, raising alarm over food situations in the North.The portion of underweight children suffering from malnutrition accounted for 15.2 percent of all of North Korea's children under age 5 as of end-2013, according to the World Development Indicator 2015 released by the World Bank.The corresponding data for South Korea and Chinese children reached 0.6 percent and 3.4 percent, respect
April 22, 2015
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N.K. fails to learn lesson from Iran nuclear deal: Seiler
North Korea appears to have missed an important lesson from the breakthrough deal on Iran's nuclear program: that the United States is committed to negotiations even with long-time foes, the U.S. envoy for nuclear talks with Pyongyang said Tuesday.Sydney Seiler, special envoy for the six-party talks on the North's nuclear program, made the remark during a seminar in Washington, stressing that the Iran deal clearly demonstrated "the flexibility, the creativity, the commitment to negotiations" tha
April 22, 2015
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Seoul seeks to hold sports, cultural events with Pyongyang
South Korea said Tuesday it will seek to hold a variety of sports and cultural events with North Korea this year to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule.South Korea plans to propose the creation of an ad hoc committee to the North to prepare for joint events to commemorate the anniversary this year, the unification ministry said in a report to the National Assembly.As part of such plans, Seoul will seek to hold a soccer game and "ssireum," or traditional Kor
April 21, 2015
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N. Korea, China's Zhengzhou launch 1st tourist charter flight
North Korea and the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou have launched a tourist charter flight service this week, a report said Tuesday, making Zhengzhou the sixth Chinese city linked to the North via charter flights. The report is another sign that North Korea has approved more cross-border tours for Chinese nationals after lifting travel restrictions it imposed in March due to concerns over the Ebola virus. The charter flight service between Zhengzhou, the capital of China's central Henan provin
April 21, 2015
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S. Korea asks N. Korea to extend deadline in Gaeseong wage row
South Korea asked North Korea on Tuesday to extend a deadline by which Seoul firms should pay wages to their workers at a joint industrial complex in the North, a government official said.Three of the 124 South Korean firms have paid the March wages to North Korean workers at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North's border town of the same name amid a drawn-out wage row among the two Koreas.In February, the North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum monthly wage by 5.18 percent to $74
April 21, 2015
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Three firms follow N. Korea's wage hike in Kaesong
Three South Korean firms have paid more wages for North Korean workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex as Pyongyang demanded, a government source here said Monday.Their move runs counter to the South Korean government's firm stance not to accept the communist neighbor's unilateral decision to raise wages for its 53,000 workers in the North's border town.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to US$74 per month, starting in March, for those workers employed by
April 20, 2015
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N. Korea extends deadline for wage payment at joint venture
North Korea on Monday extended a deadline by which South Korean firms should pay wages to the North's workers at a joint industrial park in the North, a company official said, amid a months-long row over Pyongyang's unilateral bid to hike the wage.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to $74 per month starting in March for North Korean workers employed by the 124 South Korean small- and medium-sized firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border
April 20, 2015
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N. Korea 'expressed interest' in China-led regional bank: source
North Korea has expressed interest in the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, but failed to apply for membership, a diplomatic source said Monday. South Korea and 56 other economies became founding members of the AIIB, which is seen as a potential counterbalance to U.S.-led multilateral lenders such as the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank."To my knowledge, North Korea had expressed interest in joining the AIIB and looked into ways to take part in it through an unofficial c
April 20, 2015
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Seoul bizmen to visit joint industrial park amid wage row
A group of South Korean businessmen was to visit a joint industrial complex in North Korea on Monday amid the ongoing row over the North's unilateral bid to hike wages for North Korean workers there.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to US$74 per month starting in March for North Korean workers hired by the 124 South Korean small- and medium-sized firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name.Monday is the deadline for S
April 20, 2015
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N.K. ordered to pay $330 mln to kidnapped pastor's family
A U.S. court has ordered North Korea to pay $330 million in compensation to the family of a late Korean-American pastor abducted by the North in 2000 while trying to help North Korean defectors in China.The Washington D.C. District Court delivered the verdict earlier this month, bringing the total amount of damages North Korea has to pay as results of a series of lawsuits in the U.S. so far to about $777 million, according to diplomatic sources.Rev. Kim Jong-shik was taken by a North Korean kidn
April 20, 2015
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Wage talks between 2 Koreas fails again
Inter-Korean talks to resolve an ongoing row over wage hikes for North Korean workers at a joint industrial park in the North ended in vain, with only one day remaining until the deadline, the Seoul government said Sunday."(The South's) quasi-governmental committee and its North Korean counterpart had a meeting on the minimum wage issue, as the North side accepted our proposal on Saturday," said the Ministry of Unification which handles North Korean affairs in the Seoul government. "They had not
April 19, 2015
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Kim Jong-un climbs highest mountain to honor late father
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has scaled the country's highest mountain to mark the anniversary of the day his late father was given the second-highest military rank, the North's state media reported Sunday.Kim climbed Mount Paekdu, symbolizing his ancestry, a day earlier with ranking military officials, the Korean Central News Agency said.Kim had previously ascended the mountain just after the three-year mourning period for his late father, Kim Jong-il, who died of a heart attack in December
April 19, 2015
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S. Korean firms sandwiched over 2 Koreas' wage row
South Korean firms in the joint industrial park in North Korea are sandwiched between North Korea's unilateral pay hike and South Korea's refusal to honor it.The deadline for the March wage payment for the North Korean workers in the industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong is Monday.North Korea has threatened to impose an arrears charge of 15 percent per month if South Korean companies do not pay the wages on time.The South Korean government would not accept the North's unilater
April 19, 2015
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N. Korea's ceremonial head of state travels to Indonesia
North Korea's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-nam, arrived in Beijing on Saturday, en route to Indonesia to attend a regional conference where he could hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a diplomatic source said. Kim, the head of North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, is among leaders, including Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who are expected to attend next week's Asian-African Conference in Indonesia. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin has hinted t
April 18, 2015
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China hints at Kim Jong-un invitation to war memorial parade
China hinted Friday that it has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to a Chinese military parade in September marking the 70th World War II victory anniversary. China has invited world leaders to the planned parade, set for Sept. 3, but the Chinese foreign ministry has not explicitly confirmed who had been asked to attend the event. Asked whether China has invited both South Korean President Park Geun-hye and the North Korean leader Kim to attend the parade in Beijing, Chinese foreign minist
April 17, 2015
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Activist warns against N.K. cyberattacks
The chief of a North Korean research and activist group has sent a letter to several international organizations handling cyber-related issues, calling for joint efforts to deter and curb Pyongyang’s cybercrimes.Kim Heung-kwang, chief of the Seoul-based North Korea Intellectual Solidarity, stressed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has focused on cyber terror to improve his country’s science and technology to shore up its debilitated economy.The letter was sent to the Internet Corporation for Assi
April 17, 2015
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China hints possible Xi, Kim Yong-nam meeting
China hinted Friday at a possible meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korea's ceremonial leader Kim Yong-nam on the margins of a forum in Jakarta next week. Asked about a possible bilateral meeting between Xi and Kim on the sidelines of the conference in Indonesia, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin replied, "Yes, on the sidelines of the Asia-African Conference and other commemorative events, President Xi will have some bilateral meetings."Xi will arrive in Indonesia on
April 17, 2015
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S. Korea to increase humanitarian aid to N. Korea
South Korea will provide more humanitarian aid to North Korea to help ease rising inter-Korean tensions, Seoul's point man on Pyongyang said Friday.Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo said he will make efforts to encourage more private organizations to increase exchanges at a time when the government's assistance to Pyongyang has been suspended due to 2010 punitive measures on the North for its attack on a South Korean warship."What I'll focus on is how to set up the channel of communications bet
April 17, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. to establish strategy committee on N.K. threats
South Korea and the United States agreed Wednesday to establish a joint defense strategy committee to cope better with ever-growing missile and nuclear threats from North Korea, officials said.The agreement to create the Deterrence Strategic Committee was one of the most tangible results of the Korea-U.S. Integrated Defense Dialogue that ended its two-day session in Washington. KIDD is a biannual security dialogue between the two allies."South Korea and the U.S. have a common perception on the n
April 16, 2015
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NK leader extols producers of homemade aircraft
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has had a photo session with scientists and technicians who played a role in the production of indigenous light aircraft, the North's media said Thursday.Kim has called in scientists, technicians and other military-related officials to recognize their contribution in manufacturing light aircraft and aircraft equipment, all of which was homemade, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.The KCNA did not provide the exact time for the event.The y
April 16, 2015