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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N.K. leader talks tough on U.S.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to “crush” the hostile policy of the U.S., lambasting its ongoing military drills with South Korea that Pyongyang claims are heightening tension on the peninsula, state media said Wednesday. The current political situation is “extremely grave,” he said, despite a series of measures he has taken since early this year to “bring about a turning point for the improvement of inter-Korean relations and unification.” “The U.S. and its hostile allies are unscr
April 2, 2014
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South Korea urges North to repay loans
South Korea has called on North Korea to repay millions of dollars in loans it provided years ago, an official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions over Pyongyang’s live-fire artillery drills and its threat of a nuclear test.South Korea’s state-run Export-Import Bank sent a message to its North Korean counterpart on Tuesday to inform the North of its debt obligations, said an official at the unification ministry.The move came a day after North Korea failed to pay back $7 million as the third ins
April 2, 2014
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S. Korea urges North to repay loans
South Korea has called on North Korea to repay millions of dollars in loans it provided years ago, an official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions over Pyongyang's live-fire artillery drills and its threat of a nuclear test.South Korea's state-run Export-Import Bank sent a message to its North Korean counterpart on Tuesday to inform the North of its debt obligations, said the official at the unification ministry.The move came a day after North Korea failed to pay back $7 million as the third in
April 2, 2014
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S. Korea says two drones are from N. Korea
South Korea has tentatively concluded that two unidentified drones recently found near the border with North Korea are from the communist nation, officials said Wednesday, a finding that raises questions about Seoul's air defense amid heightened military tensions in the region.South Korea collected two unmanned aerial vehicles near the border -- one found in Paju, just south of the demilitarized zone, on March 24, and the other discovered on Baengnyeong Island near the tensely guarded western ma
April 2, 2014
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N.K. denounces Park’s proposals
North Korea on Tuesday continued slanderous verbal attacks on South Korean leader Park Geun-hye and blasted her recent offers of bolstering humanitarian aid and bilateral exchanges with the communist regime, calling the proposal “rubbish” and “an unpardonable insult.”The North’s main Rodong Shimun newspaper said in its article that Park’s unification policies were designed to hurt the North’s “noble ideology and institutions” and to “integrate” its people into the South Korean system.The article
April 1, 2014
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N. Korean leader accelerates economic reform: Global Asia
Speculation following the surprise execution in December of Jang Song-thaek, the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, that the move signaled instability in the country’s political leadership and a possible turn away from economic reform was misguided, according to findings in the latest issue of Global Asia, a Seoul-based quarterly journal published by the East Asia Foundation.In a series of eight articles under the theme “Dark and Mysterious: How Kim Jong-un Is Reforming North Korea,” scho
April 1, 2014
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Park shares unification vision with diplomats
President Park Geun-hye shared her vision for unification with North Korea while hosting a dinner for the heads of South Korea’s overseas diplomatic missions on Tuesday evening.The meeting came after Park made proposals aimed at laying the groundwork for unification during a visit to the former East German city of Dresden last week. It also came amid heightened tensions following North Korea’s artillery firing near the western sea border on Monday.During the dinner, Park was planned to “share he
April 1, 2014
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S. Korea probing unknown drone found on western border island
South Korea is conducting a probe into an unidentified drone that fell on one of its border islands during the latest cross-border exchange of artillery fire with North Korea in the western sea, military officials said Tuesday.The drone was collected from Baengnyeong Island, just south of the western maritime border, at around 4 p.m. on Monday, shortly after the North finished its three-hour shelling drill with coastal artillery guns and multiple rocket launchers. It was not immediately known wh
April 1, 2014
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N. Korea warns Japan over de facto embassy in Tokyo
North Korea warned Japan against selling a property in Tokyo that serves as the North's de facto embassy during their first high-level talks in more than a year, the chief Pyongyang delegate said Tuesday, adding that there would be "no need" for progress in bilateral talks unless Japan addresses the issue.The strongly worded remarks by Song Il-ho, North Korea's ambassador in charge of talks to normalize relations with Japan who led the two-day talks that ended on Monday in Beijing, suggested tha
April 1, 2014
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N. Korea blasts Park for her proposals on North
North Korea on Tuesday launched scathing verbal attacks on South Korean President Park Geun-hye as it denounced her recent proposals calling for bolstering exchanges with the communist country.The North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper called her an eccentric old maid, an idiot and a hen over her comments on North Korea's economic difficulties and its homeless children.Park's comments "are an unpardonable insult" to the North, the newspaper said.The North's verbal attacks came more than a month af
April 1, 2014
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U.S. calls N. Korea's provocation 'dangerous,' urges restraint
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged North Korea Monday to discontinue its "dangerous" provocations, hours after receiving a briefing on soaring tensions on the peninsula from his top military commander there."The provocation that the North Koreans have once again engaged in is dangerous and it needs to stop," the secretary said at a Pentagon press conference.He said he had been briefed two hours earlier by Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, chief of 28,500 U.S. troops in Korea, about the exch
April 1, 2014
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Koreas trade fire across sea border
North Korea fired some 500 artillery shells near the Northern Limit Line on Monday, with about 100 of them falling south of the de facto inter-Korean sea border.The North began its live-fire drills at around 12:15 p.m., some four hours after notifying the South through a fax message that it had zoned off seven areas just north of the NLL for the drills.In response to the 100 shells having dropped into its territorial waters, the South fired back some 300 shots with its K-9 self-propelled howitze
March 31, 2014
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No immediate sign of N.K. nuclear test
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se warned North Korea of grave consequences following its threat of a new nuclear test. He urged the Kim Jong-un regime to take a “path to cooperation” or face deeper international isolation.North Korea said on Sunday it will not rule out a “new type of nuclear test” to further strengthen its nuclear deterrence in protest of the U.N. Security Council’s denunciation of its ballistic missile tests last week.Officials and analysts said there are no “imminent signs” of the
March 31, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Attention turn to ‘new type’ of N.K. nukes
With Pyongyang having threatened to conduct a “new type” of nuclear test, attention is being drawn to what method it might employ for a fourth test and how far its military nuclear technology has come.Analysts argue that the communist state may carry out a more powerful nuclear experiment as it seeks to show off its “nuclear deterrence” capability and up the ante in future negotiations with the international community.For the fourth test, the North is most likely to carry out an experiment using
March 31, 2014
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Government on high alert in wake of fire exchanges
The government decided to maintain close watch and readiness to prepare against the possibility of further provocations by North Korea, and make full preparations for a strong response in the event that the North provokes us again, presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook told reporters following an emergency meeting of the National Security Council.The meeting came a few hours after the two Korea exchanged artillery fire across the western maritime border Monday morning after the North staged a li
March 31, 2014
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N.K.-Japan talks make little progress
BEIJING (Yonhap) ― High-level officials from North Korea and Japan began their second day of talks in Beijing on Monday, with the Pyongyang delegate hinting that they made little headway in putting the abduction issue on the agenda. North Korea and Japan started the two-day talks on Sunday, the first of their kind since November 2012, led by Song Il-ho, the North Korean ambassador in charge of normalizing relations with Japan, and Junichi Ihara, chief of the Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau at
March 31, 2014
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Pyongyang rejects U.N. resolution on human rights
North Korea on Monday rejected a U.N. resolution condemning gross human rights violations in the communist country amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.North Korea “totally opposes and rejects” the resolution, “a product of the vicious hostile policy towards it,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in English in comments carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.The angry reaction came three days after the U.N. Human Rights Council endorsed the resolution on a vote of 30
March 31, 2014
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China voices 'concerns' over exchange of fire by Koreas
China expressed "concerns" on Monday shortly after South and North Korea traded artillery shells across their poorly marked Yellow Sea border, urging its two neighbors to exercise restraint.North Korea started a live-fire drill near the sea border earlier in the day, with some North Korean shells landing in South Korean waters, prompting the South to return fire into North Korean waters. It marked a significant flare-up of tension and came a day after North Korea vowed not to rule out a "new for
March 31, 2014
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South and North Korea exchange live fire near western sea border
The two Koreas exchanged artillery fire across the western maritime border on Monday after the North staged a live-fire drill that sent artillery shells into southern waters and prompted the evacuation of South Korean islanders.The North fired about 500 rounds of artillery shells into waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea from 12:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. After some 100 rounds fell south of the NLL, the South Korean military shot about
March 31, 2014
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N. Korea conducts live-fire drill in western sea
North Korea began a live-fire drill near the tensely guarded western Monday, hours after notifying the South of its planned drills in a rare move by the communist state, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The North fired several artillery shells in waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in Yellow Sea starting from 12:15 p.m., the JCS said. After several rounds of the shells fell on south of the NLL, the South Korean military shot artillery shells with K-9 self-propelled howitzers in r
March 31, 2014