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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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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's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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Sales of eco-friendly cars top 100,000 in Q1 in S. Korea
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U.S.-N.K. deal brightens nuke talks hopes
Challenges lie ahead as two have differences over content of agreementThe agreement between the U.S. and North Korea on temporarily halting the communist state’s uranium enrichment program in return for food aid was a positive step for the resumption of the multilateral denuclearization talks, experts here said Thursday.But given its temporary nature and the possibility that the two sides struck the deal due in large part to domestic political needs, the agreement may not yield any significant b
March 1, 2012
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U.S. Republicans criticize N.K. deal
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Republican lawmakers Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama and warned that North Korea was not to be trusted after it promised to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for U.S. food aid.Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a staunch critic of communist countries, said that the North Korea agreement “sounds a lot like the failed agreements of the past.”“North Korea’s promise to suspend certain nuclear activities can’t be taken at fac
March 1, 2012
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‘N. Korean nuclear envoy could visit U.S.’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator could visit the United States for a security forum later this month, diplomatic sources said, as the prospects of resuming six-party nuclear talks rose with the latest disarmament-for-aid deal between the two countries.Washington and Pyongyang simultaneously announced the deal earlier in the day under which Pyongyang promised to temporarily halt its uranium enrichment program and put a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missil
March 1, 2012
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N.K. nuclear envoy could visit U.S.: sources
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator could visit the United States for a security forum later this month, diplomatic sources said, as the prospects of resuming six-party nuclear talks rose with the latest disarmament-for-aid deal between the two countries.Washington a
March 1, 2012
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NK agrees to suspend nuclear activities, allow inspectors
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and a moratorium on nuclear, and long-range missile tests in a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation.The announcement comes little more than two months after the death o
Feb. 29, 2012
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‘N.K. says will halt uranium enrichment in exchange for aid'
North Korea has offered to halt its uranium enrichment program in exchange for possibly larger grain proportions in the previously-floated 240,000 tons of nutritional assistance from the U.S., sources said Wednesday.The U.S. Department of State announced Wednesday the results of the third round of t
Feb. 29, 2012
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N.Korea offers temporary halt of nuclear program in exchange for more food aid: reports
North Korea has offered a temporary way to halt its uranium enrichment program in exchange for more food in addition to the previously proposed nutritional assistance, news reports said Wednesday.The news reports came hours before the U.S. Department of State announced the results of the third round of talks between Washington’s top envy Glyn Davies and North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan in Beijing, which went for two days on Thursday and Friday.The U.S. demanded Pyongyang suspend
Feb. 29, 2012
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China reiterates its stance on N. K. defectors
China reiterated on Wednesday its stance on North Korean defectors, refusing to recognize them as refugees. "We oppose that the issue of North Koreans' illegal entry into China is being brought to the international organizations, as those organizations are not the venues to discuss such
Feb. 29, 2012
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EU may join pressure on China over N. Korean refugees
The European Union may join the international pressure on China to stop the repatriation of North Korean refugees at the U.N. Human Rights Council’s meeting on Thursday, a source said.At a meeting with diplomats and East Asia experts in Germany on Wednesday, Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik requested international cooperation to protect the human rights of North Korean defectors and respect their individual choices.“Germany and the EU shared Yu’s view that forced repatriation of North Korean refug
Feb. 29, 2012
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EU warns officials to avoid N.K. air carrier
Officials from the European Union have been advised to avoid using North Korea’s only airline Air Koryo due to safety concerns, according to the British Foreign Office’s website.Normally, Europeans traveling to the reclusive state fly from Beijing to Pyongyang on Air Koryo.The North Korean flag carrier was on the blacklist of airlines named by the European Commission that were banned from operating in the EU region, due to their failure to meet international safety standards in 2006.In March 201
Feb. 29, 2012
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U.S. set to announce results of talks with N. Korea: source
The United States will soon release some details of “modest progress” in its latest high-level talks with North Korea, an informed diplomatic source said Tuesday.“The State Department is expected to announce contents related to consultations with North Korea at around 9 a.m. tomorrow,” the source said, requesting anonymity.The top U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies, held two days of talks with North Korea‘s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan in Beijing last week.The U.S. openly said there wa
Feb. 29, 2012
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China brings supermarket concept to North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ― In his last public appearance, late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il went shopping.He peered at the prices affixed to shelves packed with everything from Pantene shampoo to Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. And he nodded his approval of Pyongyang’s version of Walmart, which was soon to open courtesy of China.The visit played up a decidedly un-communist development in North Korea: A new culture of commerce is springing up, with China as its inspiration and source. The market-sa
Feb. 29, 2012
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U.S. ship in N.K. to prepare for remains hunt
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. military says an American ship has arrived in North Korea to support the hunt for the remains of soldiers missing-in-action from the Korean War.Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, said Tuesday the ship is offloading equipment at Nampho, a port city west of the capital, Pyongyang.The U.S. and North Korea agreed in October to restart the search for thousands of American service members, a sign of easing tensions between the wartime enemies.The program
Feb. 29, 2012
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U.S. says no decision yet on food aid for North Korea
The United States said Monday that it has not made any decisions on further talks with North Korea or food aid for the communist nation despite “some moderate, modest progress” at their talks in Beijing last week.“No decisions have been made on the six-party talks side or on the nutritional assistance side,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing.She pointed out that Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, was still on his way back to Wash
Feb. 28, 2012
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N. Korea deploys upgraded long-range rocket launchers
North Korea has developed and deployed improved long-range multiple rocket launchers in time to celebrate the centennial of its founder’s birth this spring, a source here said Monday.According to the source, North Korea recently completed upgrading the previous model of its 240-millimeter rocket launchers, and named them ‘Juche 100 Guns,’ after the North’s primary ideology of self-reliance.The source said the new launchers have more than doubled the range of the earlier version, which could fire
Feb. 27, 2012
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Seoul ups diplomacy to stop return of N.K. defectors in China
The Seoul government is revving up diplomatic efforts, both officially and unofficially, to persuade China to stop the “inhumane” repatriation of North Korean defectors. On Sunday, Chun Young-woo, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs and security, paid an unofficial visit to Rep. Park Sun-young of the conservative Liberty Forward Party, who has staged a hunger strike in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul since last Tuesday to protest the repatriation. Chun was the first high-leve
Feb. 27, 2012
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Ex-table tennis star to talk on reunification
Former South Korean table tennis star Hyun Jung-hwa, who led the first unified table tennis team from South Korea and North Korea to win an international game in 1991, will share her insights on reunification and inter-Korean relations, the government said Monday.The Unification Ministry said it has named the executive director of the Korea Table Tennis Association as the lecturer at one of the eight reunification forums hosted by the state-run Education Center for Unification on March 7. Hyun w
Feb. 27, 2012
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Talks with N.K.’s new regime good start: U.S. envoy
The first talks between North Korea and the United States since the death of Kim Jong-il made a “good start,” but there is still a “long way” to go before the six-party talks on ending the North’s nuclear weapons program can resume, a U.S. nuclear envoy said Saturday.After two days of talks with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye-gwan, in Beijing, Glyn Davies flew to Seoul to brief South Korean officials on the outcome of the negotiations. In Seoul, he met with his South Korean counterpart Li
Feb. 26, 2012
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Kim Jong-un tours military units before S. Korea-U.S. drill
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited front-line military units responsible for the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010, the North's state media reported Sunday, ahead of a planned joint military exercise by the South and the U.S.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seoul, sai
Feb. 26, 2012
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UNHCR urges China not to send back detained North Koreans
GENEVA (AFP) - The UN refugee agency on Friday urged China not to send back a group of North Koreans who fled to Chinese territory and who risk punishment if returned home. In a statement, the UNHCR said it "is closely following the situation of a group of
Feb. 24, 2012