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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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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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Pyongyang’s New Year message urges loyalty to new leader
Calls for USFK withdrawal; China congratulates Kim on being supreme commander North Korean media opened the New Year emphasizing loyalty to the regime and its new leader Kim Jong-un while heightening criticism of Seoul and the U.S.The Jan. 1 issues of the organs of the Workers’ Party of Korea,
Dec. 31, 2011
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N. Korea to issue gold, silver coins in honor of late leader
North Korea said Saturday it will issue gold and silver coins to mark the 20th anniversary of late leader Kim Jong-il's ascension to the supreme commander of the communist nation's armed forces. Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency made the announcement minutes after Kim's succe
Dec. 31, 2011
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Kim Jong-Il souvenir sales surge on Chinese border
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il earlier this month has sparked a run on enamelled lapel pins bearing his image in the Chinese border city of Dandong, street vendors said Friday. The undated file photo released by Korean Central News Agency on Dec. 29, 2011 shows Kim Jong Il (C, fr
Dec. 30, 2011
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Regional powers rushing to ensure stability in Korea
South Korea and external stakeholders in the Korean Peninsula such as China and the U.S. are moving swiftly to ensure regional security, especially since the mourning period for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ended on Thursday, sources said.South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea, is trying to ensure a soft landing of the post-Kim Jong-il regime by not aggravating Pyongyang.A government official here said the Seoul government will focus on maintaining stability
Dec. 30, 2011
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Campbell due in Seoul, with U.S. waiting for N. Korea‘s response
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- Kurt M. Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will visit South Korea, China and Japan next week for discussions on various issues, including North Korea, which is in a power transition, the department announced Thursday.Campbell plans to tour the region from Tuesday through Saturday to meet senior officials to “discuss a range of important bilateral, regional and global issues, including latest developments related to North Ko
Dec. 30, 2011
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Powers rushing to ensure stability in Korea
South Korea and external stakeholders in the Korean Peninsula such as China and the U.S. are moving swiftly to ensure regional security, especially since the mourning period for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ended on Thursday, sources said.South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea, is trying to ensure a soft landing of the post-Kim Jong-il regime by not aggravating Pyongyang.A government official here said the Seoul government will focus on maintaining stability
Dec. 30, 2011
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North Korea vows no change despite new leadership
North Korea warned rival South Korea and the rest of the world Friday not to expect any change after Kim Jong-il’s death, sending a clear message of continuity by also calling his son and heir ``Great Leader" for the first time.North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission said that the country would never deal with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a conservative who stopped a no-strings-attached aid policy toward the North in 2008, and that it would unite around new leader Kim Jong-un
Dec. 30, 2011
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North Korea threatens not to deal with South Korea's Lee government
This handout picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 29, 2011 shows Kim Jong-Un (2R) together with head-of-state Kim Yong-Nam (R) attending the mourning service for late North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang, as North Korea began a national memorial
Dec. 30, 2011
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S. Korea, U.S. agree on need for further talks with N. Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- In their first meeting since the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the top South Korean and U.S. nuclear envoys agreed Wednesday to resume talks with the communist nation if the “right conditions” are created, according to a South Korean official.“First, (we) shared the opinion with the U.S. that it is important to stably manage security on the Korean Peninsula after the death of Chairman Kim Jong-il,” Lim Sung-nam, special representative for Korean Peninsula
Dec. 29, 2011
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New Kim era begins with huge memorial
North Korea began the new era of young and untested leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday with a massive memorial service for the late Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang.An estimated 100,000 soldiers and civilians of Pyongyang gathered at Kim Il-sung Square where the late Kim’s successor and top party and military officials stood firm on the balcony of the Grand People’s Study House, North Korea’s state TV showed.Wearing a black coat at his vantage point above the huge crowd, Kim Jong-un looked somber. Next to K
Dec. 29, 2011
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Role of Jang Song-thaek ‘overestimated’
The power of Jang Song-thaek, late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s brother-in-law, has been overestimated, an expert said Thursday, countering the widespread assumptions over his role as a key regent facilitating the hereditary power succession.Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at Sejong Institute, also said that successor Jong-un’s leadership capabilities have been underestimated in the media, stressing that it is wrong to judge the North based on “outsiders’ perspectives.”“Jang is one of the
Dec. 29, 2011
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Photo of Kim Jong-il's funeral was doctored: NYT
North Korea's state news agency has transmitted altered photographs of the funeral procession for the late leader Kim Jong-il held in Pyongyang on Wednesday, New York Times reported.The New York Times and the digital forensics expert Hany Farid of Dartmouth College analyzed a photograph distributed
Dec. 29, 2011
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North Korea begins memorial for Kim Jong-il
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) _ Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans packed the main plaza in Pyongyang as the nation's next leader looked on from a balcony at a solemn memorial for late leader Kim Jong Il Thursday.Kim Jong Un stood watching from a balcony at the Grand People's Study House overlooki
Dec. 29, 2011
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Heir leads funeral for late leader
Pyongyang citizens wail on snowy streets of capital over death of Kim Jong-ilNorth Korea held a mass funeral for late leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday, with his third son and successor Kim Jong-un escorting his father’s hearse through snowy Pyongyang.The North’s state-run Korean Central TV aired the funeral at 2 p.m., saying that it was broadcast live. South Korean media speculated that the footage might have been recorded and edited in advance.The funeral ceremony began at the outdoor square of
Dec. 28, 2011
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Inter-Korean factory complex closes temporarily for Kim’s funeral
North Korea is closing an inter-Korean factory park for two days to mark the funeral of its late leader Kim Jong-il, a Seoul official said Wednesday.The industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong will halt operations Wednesday and Thursday during the last days of the 13-day mourning period for Kim, who died from heart failure on Dec. 17, according to the North’s media.“I understand that (South Korean) firms operating there agreed with (North Korean authorities) to suspend work
Dec. 28, 2011
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Flower sales boom as scores mourn North Korea’s Kim
DANDONG, China (AFP) ― Business was booming for flower sellers in the Chinese border city of Dandong on Wednesday as mourners gathered at the North Korean consulate to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong-il.Scores of stoney-faced mourners clutched bunches of yellow and white flowers as they entered the consulate, where large flat-screen televisions had been put up to show Wednesday’s funeral.Another 100 people crammed into a North Korean restaurant across the street― which along with scor
Dec. 28, 2011
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North Korean heir leads funeral of Kim Jong-il
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea carried out a meticulously choreographed funeral for late leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday and affirmed that the country was now in the ``warm care'' of his young son, extending the Kim family's hold on power to a third generation.Footage broadcast on North
Dec. 28, 2011
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Lee, Hyun delegations return to Seoul
The widows of former President Kim Dae-jung and former Hyundai Asan chairman Chung Mong-hun returned home on Tuesday after their high-profile trip to Pyongyang to express condolences over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.In the morning, former First Lady Lee Hee-ho and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun met the North’s titular head Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly and expressed “deep condolences” over Kim’s demise, according to the North’
Dec. 27, 2011
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Lee, Hyun report no political talks
Both meet Kim Jong-un and No. 2 North Korea leader Kim Yong-namThe widows of former President Kim Dae-jung and former Hyundai Asan chairman Chung Mong-hun returned home on Tuesday after their high-profile trip to Pyongyang to express condolences over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.In the morning, former First Lady Lee Hee-ho and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun met the North’s titular head Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, and express
Dec. 27, 2011
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North Korea seen clamping down on defectors
Activists helping refugees to flee North Korea fear that the death of leader Kim Jong-il will lead to a crackdown on people trying to escape repression and hunger in the communist state.The North is believed to have stepped up patrols along its border with China, as well as security checks in public places, in an attempt to prevent defections in the wake of Kim’s death on Dec. 17.“I can’t reach most of my contacts in the North. All of their mobile phones are switched off, probably to dodge heigh
Dec. 27, 2011