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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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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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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Sales of eco-friendly cars top 100,000 in Q1 in S. Korea
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[Herald Interview] Director of 'Goodbye Earth' aimed to ask how we would face apocalypse
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N. Korea likely can miniaturize nuclear warheads for missiles: U.S. expert
North Korea seems to have the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead for its medium-range missiles, but does not appear technically ready to conduct necessary tests, a U.S. expert said Thursday."My analysis is that North Korea could probably miniaturize a warhead that should fit for a Rodong missile," Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program at the U.S.-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency. "
Oct. 30, 2014
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Inter-Korean talks hang in the balance
The prospect for the resumption of high-level inter-Korean dialogue further dimmed Wednesday as Pyongyang demanded a change in Seoul’s stance on anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets as a condition for holding the talks.The North’s powerful National Defense Commission said that the resumption of the talks hinged on the South’s “responsible” decision on whether to continuously allow its civic groups to float balloons carrying the leaflets that condemn the North’s dictatorial regime.Rejecting the N
Oct. 29, 2014
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U.N. investigator cautious on N. Korea engagement
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― A U.N. human rights investigator said Tuesday that he was surprised and gratified that North Korean officials raised the possibility of allowing him to visit their country, but the prospect of such a trip remains deeply uncertain because of demands the North Koreans made in exchange.Marzuki Darusman said North Korea is insisting that a proposed U.N. resolution drop a recommendation that the North be considered for referral to the International Criminal Court over its human
Oct. 29, 2014
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Gov't to let Korean dictionary board visit N. Korea
The government on Wednesday said it is allowing a group of scholars and writers who are trying to compile a dictionary that can be used by all Koreans to visit North Korea. The unification ministry said 28 people belonging to the Joint Board of South and North Korea for the Compilation of Gyeoremal-keunsajeon will arrive in Pyongyang on Thursday and return on Nov. 8 after consultation with their North Korean counterparts. The visit will mark the first time in five years that South Korean mem
Oct. 29, 2014
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U.S. envoy urges N. Korea to make 'authentic' denuclearization
The U.S. special nuclear envoy Wednesday urged North Korea to halt its nuclear and provocative activities, calling on Pyongyang to pursue "authentic and credible" denuclearization. Sydney Seiler, Washington's deputy negotiator on North Korea's nuclear issue, listed "representative examples" that the North can show its sincerity toward denuclearization, but he made it clear that the U.S. has no intention to "loosen standards" for the resumption of the long-stalled six-party talks. "The (nucle
Oct. 29, 2014
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N. Korea rejects S. Korea's offer of talks this week
North Korea on Wednesday spurned South Korea's offer of high-level talks this week, casting a pall again over tumultuous bilateral ties.The North's National Defense Commission sent a fax message to the South's presidential office through a military hotline reiterating its protest of the scattering of propaganda leaflets across the border, according to the unification ministry.The commission claimed that the South's government is not interested in holding the dialogue and it is rather trying to a
Oct. 29, 2014
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N. Korea attempts to hack into S. Koreans' smartphones: NIS
North Korea attempted to hack into South Koreans' smartphones by spreading malicious applications online, possibly infecting more than 20,000 smartphones, Seoul's spy agency said Wednesday.The malicious applications, disguised as games, were spread on South Korean websites between May 19 and Sept. 16, according to a report submitted to the parliamentary intelligence committee by the National Intelligence Service (NIS).Although the NIS did not report any actual damage, it estimated that more than
Oct. 29, 2014
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N. Korea running new test stand for development of SLBM: U.S. think tank
North Korea has built a new test stand on its eastern coast to research and develop ballistic missiles that can be launched from submarines, a U.S. think tank said Tuesday, citing commercial satellite imagery.The assessment from the website 38 North, run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is in line with South Korea's intelligence that the North is believed to be developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)."A review of commerci
Oct. 29, 2014
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N.K., U.N. investigator meet on visit
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― North Korean officials said Monday they met for the first time with a United Nations special investigator on human rights and “envisage’’ him visiting their country. A U.N. official confirmed the meeting.A visit by a U.N. human rights official would be a breakthrough in international efforts to have a firsthand look at the way the deeply impoverished but nuclear-armed country treats its citizens. But the North’s offer likely is another attempt to stop a growing internationa
Oct. 28, 2014
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N. Korean leader’s sister rumored to be married
The U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia raised speculation Tuesday that Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, may have married a senior official of Room 39, an agency that maintains the dictatorial ruler’s foreign currency slush funds.The RFA cited a Korean-Chinese businessman, who recently traveled to Pyongyang, as saying that a senior official of a trade company associated with Room 39 told him that Kim Yo-jong had got married. He said Kim’s husband was rumored to be work
Oct. 28, 2014
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N. Korea, historical issues threaten regional security: Seoul FM
South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday that North Korea's nuclear threat, and historical and territorial rows pose risks to stability in Northeast Asia, calling for measures to build trust and promote regional cooperation.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se made the remarks at the opening of an international forum aimed at promoting a peace initiative in Northeast Asia proposed by South Korean President Park Geun-hye.The three-day forum brings together government officials and private experts to
Oct. 28, 2014
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N.K. offers to invite top U.N. human rights official in return for sparing leader from resolution By Chang Jae-soon
North Korea has offered to invite the top U.N. human rights official to Pyongyang if the European Union drops any mention of referring the country's leader to the International Criminal Court from a U.N. human rights resolution, a news report said.The North made the offer via Cuba earlier this month, saying it would invite the U.N. high commissioner for human rights to discuss the situation in exchange for EU assurances that the "North Korean leader would be off-limits," Foreign Policy magazine
Oct. 28, 2014
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[Graphic News] Ranges of N.K.’s ballistic missiles
U.S. Forces Korea Commander Curtis Scaparrotti said Friday that North Korea was thought to have the capability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead. His remarks escalated concerns that Pyongyang is getting close to weaponizing its nuclear capability by placing it atop a missile, which could pose a threat not only to South Korea but also to the U.S. The North conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and last year, and experts say Pyongyang might have accumulated the technology to build nuclear warheads
Oct. 27, 2014
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N.K. threatens to reconsider talks
North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission said it is being forced to reconsider a deal with South Korea to resume high-level talks due to the continued spread of propaganda leaflets across the border, the South’s unification ministry said Monday.In a fax message delivered to the South’s presidential office through a military hotline early Sunday morning, the commission accused the South’s government of letting activists send leaflets, said the ministry.It shows Seoul remains tepid on Py
Oct. 27, 2014
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N. Korea asks Korean Red Cross to offer medical supplies
North Korea has asked the Korean Red Cross to provide medical goods to be used for containing contagious diseases, the new head of the agency said Monday."North Korea has requested the Korean Red Cross to support medical products to prevent the spread of contagious diseases," Kim Sung-joo told lawmakers at a parliamentary audit of the agency.Although Pyongyang has banned foreign tourists from entering the communist country since late last week as part of its stepped-up efforts to prevent an outb
Oct. 27, 2014
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No N. Korea's infiltration tunnels found in S. Korean capital: Seoul
No signs have been detected that North Korea dug underground tunnels into the South's capital areas, Seoul's defense ministry said Monday, dismissing recent claims of the government's cover-up of such penetration attempts as "groundless."Hahn Sung-chu, a former two-star general in South Korea, has argued that North Korea carved out at least 84 underground tunnels that lead to the presidential office in central Seoul and a dozen others that connect with each other across the nation.Hahn has long
Oct. 27, 2014
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N. Korea has 'significant' tech level in nuke miniaturization:
North Korea appears to have achieved "a significant level" of technology to build miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be mounted on its long-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's defense chief said Monday."North Korea is assumed to have a significant level in its miniaturization technology. It is appropriate for the military to maintain readiness based upon the assessment," Han Min-koo said during the regular parliamentary audit into the ministry.For decades, Pyongyang has been working to
Oct. 27, 2014
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N. Korea threatens to reconsider high-level talks
North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission said it is being forced to reconsider a deal with South Korea to resume high-level talks due to the continued spread of propaganda leaflets across the border, the South's unification ministry said Monday.In a fax message delivered to the South's presidential office through a military hotline early Sunday morning, the commission accused the South's government of letting activists send leaflets, said the ministry.It shows Seoul remains tepid on Py
Oct. 27, 2014
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Anti-N.K. leaflets escalate ideological division
Scuffles, screams and spiteful words thwarted an anti-Pyongyang leaflet-distribution campaign near the inter-Korean border Saturday, underscoring a deepening ideological division in South Korea.Shortly after noon, a group of conservatives tried to reach Imjingak pavillion near the Demilitarized Zone to float balloons carrying tens of thousands of leaflets designed to awaken North Koreans to the brutality of the dictatorial regime.But residents and liberal civic activists blocked them from approa
Oct. 26, 2014
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N. Korea's labor productivity 30 years behind S. Korea: think tank
North Korea lags more than 30 years behind South Korea in terms of labor productivity due mainly to the reclusive country's decades of stunted economic growth, a private think tank said Sunday.According to a report by the Hyundai Research Institute (HRI), the average North Korean worker was estimated to have produced 2.7 million won (US$2,552) worth of goods or services annually as of the end of 2012. The average South Korean laborer reached that level of productivity in 1980.In 1990, North Kore
Oct. 26, 2014