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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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N.K. warns foreigners to prepare evacuation from South Korea
North Korea on Tuesday called on foreigners living in South Korea to prepare to evacuate amid concerns that the communist country is poised to conduct a missile test as early as Wednesday."The situation on the Korean Peninsula is heading for a thermonuclear war,” the North’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement."In the event of war, we don’t want foreigners living in South Korea to get hurt. All foreign organizations, companies and tourists should work out measures for evacuation.”Se
April 9, 2013
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Park voices disappointment with N. Korea's suspension of Gaeseong complex
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that North Korea's decision to suspend the operation of a jointly run factory complex in its border city of Gaeseong is "very disappointing." Park made the remark during a Cabinet meeting, saying that no country in the world would be willing to invest in North Korea if the communist nation flouts international regulations and promises."It is very disappointing that North Korea abruptly said yesterday that it will temporarily suspend the operation
April 9, 2013
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Japan puts anti-North Korean missiles in Tokyo
Japan has deployed Patriot missiles in its capital as it readies to defend the 30 million people who live in greater Tokyo from any North Korean attack, an official said Tuesday.Two Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air missile launchers had been stationed at the defense ministry in Tokyo before dawn, a ministry spokesman said.Local reports said PAC-3 will be deployed in another two locations in the greater Tokyo area.Batteries will also be installed in the semi-tropical island chain of O
April 9, 2013
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U.S. says N. Korea‘s Gaeseong measure ’regrettable‘
The U.S. government expressed regret Monday over North Korea’s threat to shut down an inter-Korean industrial complex in Gaeseong.“Closing it would be regrettable, given that more than 50,000 North Korean people are employed there, and it would not help them achieve their stated desire to improve their economy and better the lives of their people,” Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the State Department, said at a press briefing. “So that would be a regrettable action, if they continue in that di
April 9, 2013
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S. Korea's border regions suffer shortage of shelters
South Korean regions bordering North Korea need hundreds more shelters to house evacuees in emergency situations such as the North's provocations, government data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the country's 15 regions in the western port city of Incheon and the northern parts of the Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces that border North Korea lack a combined 287 shelters to acco
April 9, 2013
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IAEA chief calls N. Korea actions 'troubling'
The U.N. atomic watchdog chief on Monday called North Korea's drive to restart a nuclear site "troubling" and said his team could not detect whether the regime planned a new nuclear test due to a lack of access.Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the watchdog had observed Pyongyang's efforts to rebuild parts of its Yongbyon nuclear site amid a showdown with South Korea and the United States."That is very troubling because they are against United Nations
April 9, 2013
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N. Korean workers fail to report to work at Gaeseong
SEOUL -- North Korean workers failed to show up for work at the inter-Korean industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong on Tuesday, bringing their operations to a complete halt and putting the complex's future in limbo. A government source at the Ministry of Unification said workers did not report to work as the North announced the day before that it would pull out all of its laborers in protest of South Korean provocations. Pyongyang claimed that Seoul was using Kaesong to find
April 9, 2013
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Putin says N.Korean conflict could be worse than Chernobyl
HANOVER, Germany, (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Monday that any military conflict on the Korean peninsula had the potential to be worse than the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl."If something happens, God forbid, (then) Chernobyl which we all know about very well would simply seem like a children's fairy tale," he told reporters at an industrial fair in Germany.Speaking at a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin welcomed a US decision to delay the test
April 8, 2013
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Seoul sees little chance of new N.K. nuke test
The Defense Ministry on Monday played down the possibility of an imminent nuclear test by North Korea following a report that Seoul detected some movement of personnel and vehicles around the southern part of the communist state’s Punggye-ri test site. Earlier in the day, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said there were signs that Pyongyang might be preparing for a fourth nuclear test. “What I can comment on is that there are some signs,” he said in response to a lawmaker’s question during a p
April 8, 2013
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N.K. halts Gaeseong operations, says will withdraw its workers
PAJU, Gyeonggi Province ― North Korea said Monday that it would pull out all of its workers from the inter-Korean industrial complex in its border city of Gaeseong, jeopardizing the last remaining symbol of bilateral economic cooperation.Kim Yang-gon, the North’s ruling Workers’ Party’s secretary in charge of South Korean affairs, said the communist state would tentatively put operation at the complex on hold and consider whether or not to scrap it.“How the situation will develop in the future w
April 8, 2013
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‘Hackers take aim at N.K. nuclear facilities’
A member of the hacker group Anonymous said Monday it plans a new cyber attack on North Korean Internet networks that would affect nuclear facilities. The group attacked North Korean Internet sites last Thursday including Uriminzokkiri, its main Internet-based media and propaganda outlet.A Korean member of Anonymous who uses the Twitter account @Anonsj said in an online discussion that the hacktivist group wants to break into the communist country’s Kwangmyong national Intranet on June 25. The d
April 8, 2013
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Seoul skeptical over dialogue with N.K. to reduce tension
The Seoul government appears to be putting the brakes on calls for inter-Korean dialogue to defuse peninsular tension, stressing that the appropriate atmosphere had yet to be forged with North Korea.Soaring tension has fanned public security concerns, giving rise to voices demanding talks to discuss a way out of the standoff between the two Koreas. Some opposition lawmakers have suggested a special envoy be sent to Pyongyang.But within the government, skepticism over dialogue with the North appe
April 8, 2013
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N. Korea to withdraw all of its workers from Gaeseong
North Korea on Monday said it is withdrawing all its workers form joint industrial complex in Gaeseong.The announcement came while Kim Yang-gon, the North's secretary in charge of South Korean affairs, was visiting the industrial park."We will temporarily halt the operation of the complex, and will consider shutting it down," Kim said in a statement. He added that South Korea is “completely responsible” for how the situation will turn out in the future. The statement was carried by the Korean Ce
April 8, 2013
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N.K. threats fuel bombing, war rumors
A text message claiming that Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea had been bombed by the North circulated on Sunday, according to Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency.“Warning! North Korean bombs hit Yeonpyeong Island at 6:38, killing 62 citizens. Click the link to see video,” the message said. When the recipients clicked on the link enclosed in the message, they were presented with a photo of a fishing rod to indicate that they were “fished.” In Korea, online users use the term “fished” when a per
April 8, 2013
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N.K. may be preparing to test missile: minister
A top South Korean national security official said North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul.North Korea's warning last week followed weeks of war threats and other efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for ongoing joint military drills, and for their support of
April 8, 2013
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Two more S. Koreans return home from Kaesong complex
Two South Koreans returned home Sunday from the South Korea-run industrial complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong after one of them became ill, officials here said.Sunday marks the fifth day since North Korea began blocking South Korean workers and cargo from entering the Kaesong complex."We had a patient at the complex, which prompted a total of two people, including a driver, to cross the border into the South by car through the Dorasan Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) off
April 7, 2013
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Hacker group reveals more names, mounts pressure on N.K. leader
International hacker activist group Anonymous exposed some 6,000 more alleged members of the North Korean propaganda website Uriminzokkiri on Saturday, calling their action a warning against the Kim Jong-un regime.An additional 523 e-mail accounts registered with the North Korean website were found to be those provided by South Korean portal sites, other news reports said Sunday.The information disclosed by the group include the name and ID of the user, as well as their e-mail addresses, phone n
April 7, 2013
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Business as usual at N.K. embassies
Foreign diplomatic missions in Pyongyang proceeded with their routines as normal over the weekend, despite North Korea’s warning to them to leave the country amid escalating tensions on the peninsula, diplomatic sources said Sunday.While closely watching the situation, they did not make any decision yet to pull out of the country, which has escalated tension through bellicose rhetoric against Washington and Seoul in recent weeks. In Pyongyang, there are 24 embassies including those from China, G
April 7, 2013
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Hacking group releases second list of N. Korean Web members
SEOUL -- An international hacking group released on Saturday its second list of thousands of members it claims were registered with North Korea's main news and propaganda Web site, Uriminzokkiri. Investigators suspect that the list may include some South Koreans. Through its account on Twitter (@YourAnonNewsKR), the group, which calls itself "Anonymous Korea," released the personal information of 6,216 members registered on the North Korean propaganda Web site, operated by the Committee for
April 7, 2013
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Foreign embassies still in Pyongyang despite warning: Seoul officials
Despite North Korea's recent warning to foreign diplomatic missions to leave Pyongyang, no embassy has yet to make a move out of the communist state, Seoul officials said Saturday."We don't believe there's any foreign mission about to leave Pyongyang," one South Korean government official said. "Most foreign governments view the North Korean message as a way of ratcheting up tension on the Korean Peninsula."According to media reports Friday, North Korea's foreign ministry asked foreign embassies
April 7, 2013