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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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S. Korea to allow New Zealand motorcyclists to cross DMZ
(Yonhap) -- The South Korean government said Wednesday that it will allow five New Zealand motorcyclists who are currently in North Korea to cross over the demilitarized zone (DMZ) as they make their trek across the Korean Peninsula. North Korean media reported earlier in the month on the arrival of the bikers and said they have visited many parts of the country. They are currently in Pyongyang. "The decision has been made to allow the New Zealanders to cross over the military demarcatio
Aug. 28, 2013
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N. Korea expresses regret over Seoul's calls to delay Mt. Kumgang tour talks
(Yonhap) -- North Korea expressed regret over calls by Seoul to delay holding the Mount Geumgang tour talks and requested it reconsider its actions, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Unification said Pyongyang notified the South of its views in an official message sent through the communication line at the neutral border village of Panmunjom. Seoul on Tuesday proposed holding talks on Oct. 2, a week later than its previous offer. The North wanted the talks to be held in late
Aug. 28, 2013
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Envoy to seek release of American held in N. Korea
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. envoy will travel to North Korea this week to seek the release of an American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the authoritarian country, the State Department said Tuesday. The visit by Bob King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, will be the first public trip to North Korea by an administration official in more than two years and could provide an opening for an improvement in relations severely strained by Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclea
Aug. 28, 2013
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Think tank: Seized jets likely for N.Korean use
An arms control institute says fighter jet parts seized from a North Korean ship by Panamanian authorities were likely intended for use by North Korea, an apparent violation of U.N. sanctions. The findings by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute contradict Cuba's claim that it was not violating the sanctions as it was sending jet parts, missiles and other equipment to North Korea for repairs and expected it all to be returned. U.N. sanctions are imposed because Pyongyang's pursui
Aug. 28, 2013
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U.N. rights panel urges N. Korea to grant access
A U.N. probe into human rights in North Korea on Tuesday called on the reclusive country to open its doors and allow on-site inspections despite Pyongyang labeling it a “plot to ignite inter-Korean confrontation.” The three-member Commission of Inquiry chaired by retired Australian justice Michael Kirby wrapped up its first, 10-day mission to the South, which included hearings of testimony chiefly from North Korean defectors. More than 40 witnesses testified throughout the five-day event on publ
Aug. 27, 2013
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[Photo News] Red Cross chief in Seoul
Aug. 27, 2013
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Kim Jong-il’s grandson headed to top French univ.
Kim Han-sol, a grandson of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, will enroll at an elite French university in September.Kim Han-sol is the son of Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-il’s outcast son, and the nephew of the current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to French and local news reports, Kim Han-sol will join the Europe-Asia undergraduate program at Sciences Po’s Le Havre campus on the north coast of France. The three-year liberal arts program, taught in English, focuses on the relationship
Aug. 27, 2013
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U.N. rights panel urges N. Korea to grant access
The head of a U.N. inquiry into human rights in North Korea appealed on Tuesday for access to the country, even as Pyongyang condemned his commission's work as slanderous and provocative.The three-member Commission of Inquiry chaired by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby has just wrapped up hearing five days of often harrowing testimony in the South Korean capital -- mostly from North Korean defectors.As he prepared to give a final press conference Tuesday, the North's official Korean Centra
Aug. 27, 2013
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N. Korea seeks four-party nuclear talks
North Korea's top military official proposed talks with South Korea, China and the United States to discuss its nuclear weapons program, but the proposal was met with skepticism in Seoul and Washington, a diplomatic source said Tuesday. Choe Ryong-hae, the vice marshal of the North Korean People's Army, proposed the "four-party talks" to China in May, when he visited Beijing as a "special envoy" of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the source said. The North's proposal for such talks, which inclu
Aug. 27, 2013
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No six-party talks until NK shows efforts: McCain
The U.S. will not allow the resumption of the long-stalled six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program until the communist country takes "meaningful" steps to denuclearize, a visiting U.S. senator said Monday.The six-way talks, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan, have been stalled since late 2008. The North has recently expressed its willingness to reopen the disarmament-for-assistance talks, and has rallied political backing from Russia and China.Arizona Sen
Aug. 26, 2013
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China's point man on NK nukes visits Pyongyang
China's chief negotiator to the six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, the North's official news service reported.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wu Dawei was in Pyongyang, but it gave no details such as the purpose of his visit or his itinerary. However, Wu's visit is widely seen as being related to ongoing efforts by Beijing to restart the stalled multilateral dialogue aimed at getting the North to give up its nuclear ambit
Aug. 26, 2013
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China’s chief nuclear envoy visits N. Korea
China’s top nuclear envoy Wu Dawei on Monday visited North Korea in an apparent move to revive the long-stalled multilateral aid-for-denuclearization talks involving Pyongyang.The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that the Chinese delegation led by Wu arrived in Pyongyang. It did not specify the purpose of its surprise visit to the impoverished state.The delegation’s trip to the North came as Pyongyang has been struggling to overcome the deepening international isolation stemm
Aug. 26, 2013
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S. Koreans may be allowed to stay at Gaeseong park soon: gov't
South Korean technicians may be allowed to stay for extended periods of time at an inter-Korean factory park in North Korea from this week to better support companies planning to reopen their factories, the government said Monday.The plan to permit Koreans to stay overnight comes after Seoul and Pyongyang agreed on Aug. 14 to reopen the Gaeseong Industrial Complex that has been closed since early April. Starting last week, South Korean businessmen began visiting Gaeseong in large numbers to gaug
Aug. 26, 2013
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N. Korean leader chairs military commission meeting, makes important decisions
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un chaired a meeting of a top military commission to decide on important matters on enhancing the country's independence and defense, the communist country's media reported Monday.At the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim and the North's top policymakers discussed and decided on key practical issues to bolster the combat capability of the revolutionary armed forces, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.The ce
Aug. 26, 2013
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S. Korea chooses candidates for Sept. family reunions
The South Korean Red Cross on Saturday picked 500 candidates to reunite with their families in the North on Sept. 25-30 on Mount Geumgangsan, as part of preparations for the first of such gatherings in nearly three years.With priority given to elderly applicants and immediate family members such as parents and children of those living north of the border, the candidates were selected at random by a computer. The 500 candidates will be narrowed down to around 250 following necessary procedures in
Aug. 25, 2013
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Life and death on margins of North Korea society
North Korea’s famine in the 1990s unleashed a Darwinian struggle for survival that swiftly eliminated many of the most vulnerable in an already sharply stratified society, a U.N. panel heard Thursday.“People are treated without dignity in North Korea ― and in some cases like sub-humans,” said Ji Seong-ho, who was 14 when he lost his hand and left leg trying to steal coal from a moving train during the famine years.Ji, now 31, was one of a number of North Korean defectors called to testify before
Aug. 25, 2013
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‘Laos Nine’ deserve international support
The “Laos Nine” is not the name of a rock band. It is the name given to a group of stateless orphans, aged 14 to 20, in search of a life. Each has a story that defies imagination about human cruelty, but their stories tell the rest of us how precious life is. This is a story about how they got their name. They do not know their parents. Things like home, school, refrigeration and TV were not a part of their growing-up process. Instead, they survived by begging and stealing food. They slept under
Aug. 25, 2013
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Seoul not mulling inter-Korean summit at present: unification minister
South Korea is not considering holding a summit with North Korea at the moment as conditions are not yet ripe for such a meeting, Seoul's unification minister said Sunday.Pyongyang has recently shifted from a bellicose posture to dialogue mode by agreeing with Seoul to resume a jointly run factory complex in the communist country that has been shuttered since early April amid tension sparked by the North's nuclear test in February.Last week, the Koreas also agreed to hold reunions from Sept. 25-
Aug. 25, 2013
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N. Korean leader observes exercise involving new warship
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observed a maneuver exercise of a newly built warship, the North's state media said Sunday.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report monitored in Seoul, "(Kim) guided maneuvers of a newly built warship." The date and location of the exercise were not specified. "He was greatly satisfied to see the high maneuverability and striking capability of the warship," the KCNA said in an English dispatch. It added that Kim called on "the need to make many mu
Aug. 25, 2013
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N. Korea to stay open to tourists 'all year round'
North Korea has decided to allow foreign tourists to visit the reclusive country "all year round," according to a British-run travel company which specializes in tours to the North on Saturday. The Beijing-based Koryo Tours said North Korea had previously closed its borders to foreign tourists from mid-December to mid-January every year. "However, we have just heard from our partners that this is no longer the case and the country will stay open to tourists all year round," the travel agency sai
Aug. 24, 2013