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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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‘Fears of eruption spreading in N.K.’
North Korea’s adoption of a new rule on natural disasters last month indicates that experts’ warnings of volcanic eruptions of Mount Baekdu have spread widely throughout the country, the South Korean government said Wednesday. Pyongyang’s new law stipulates principles for observing and forecasting natural disasters, particularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, in addition to how to minimize damage and undertake rescue activities, the Korean Central News Agency reported last month, without gi
Dec. 7, 2011
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U.S. officials visit Seoul to discuss N. Korea, Myanmar
U.S. special envoys dealing with North Korea and Myanmar policy arrived in South Korea Wednesday for separate visits to discuss the next steps in dealing with the traditionally repressive regimes, officials here said.Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, arrived in Seoul as part of his first East Asia tour since being appointed in October.During his five-day stay in South Korea, Davies is scheduled to meet Thursday with Lim Sung-nam, Seoul’s chief envoy to the stal
Dec. 7, 2011
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North Korea applied for two patents this year
North Korea applied for just two international patents from the World Intellectual Property Organization this year, the Washington-based Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday.The WIPO said that the North applied in April for a patent on cast-iron welding rods. But it did not disclose what the other was for.The reclusive state made three applications for international patents in 2007, seven in 2008 and four last year. It did not apply in 2009.Experts said that the low number of applications indic
Dec. 7, 2011
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N.K. documents show loss of military discipline
North Korea’s internal military educational documents highlighted its reclusive leader Kim Jong-il’s concerns about a loss of discipline in his military, three experts here said this week.Kim chided his soldiers for a series of misdeeds, including stealing military property, beatings among personnel and desertion, according to the documents published in the early and mid 2000s.On Monday, Lee Gyo-deok, senior researcher at Korea Institute for National Unification, Chung Kyu-sup, North Korea exper
Dec. 7, 2011
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Fears of Mount Paekdu eruption spreading in N. Korea: gov't
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's adoption of a new rule on natural disasters last month indicates that experts' warnings of volcanic eruptions of Mount Paekdu has spread widely throughout the country, the South Korean government said Wednesday. Pyongyang's new law stipulates principles for ob
Dec. 7, 2011
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S. Korean CEOs to boost morale in industrial complex in N. Korea
South Korean company heads who run factories with North Korean workers in the Gaeseong Industrial Complex will gather to boost their business morale, sources said.The association of CEOs of South Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises in Gaeseong will hold a general meeting on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at a training and education center in the complex. It is the first time for the group to hold a regular meeting in North Korea since it was established under the Gaeseong Industrial Complex Act in J
Dec. 6, 2011
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Auction aborted for baby food intended for N. Koreans
South Korea plans a second attempt to auction off baby food originally intended for North Korean children, officials said Tuesday.The move comes after nobody bid for 540,000 packs of baby food on Onbid, an auction Web site run by the state-run Korea Asset Management Corp.South Korea plans to issue a second public notice and adjust the prices, said an official handling the issue at the Unification Ministry. He did not elaborate on further details.The baby food is part of 5 billion won ($4.4 milli
Dec. 6, 2011
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N. Korean leader blasts breakdown in military discipline: report
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il regularly blasts the breakdown in military discipline among troops, a report based on internal data collected over the last decade said Monday.The report compiled jointly by the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), the Institute f
Dec. 5, 2011
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N.K.’s participation in Vietnam War described in new dossier
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― North Korea dispatched dozens of pilots to the Vietnam War decades ago, with its communist ally short of specialists to operate MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighter jets in battles against the United States, according to a recently released dossier.“On 21 September 1966 an official North Korean request to be allowed to send a North Korean Air Force regiment to help defend North Vietnam against U.S air attacks was officially reviewed and approved by the Vietnamese Communist Party’
Dec. 5, 2011
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U.S.-N.K. talks floated amid envoy’s visit
Glyn Davies to meet with South Korean chief negotiator this weekHigh-ranking officials of the U.S. and North Korea may hold a third round of negotiations on the stalled six-party nuclear talks after the new U.S. special envoy to North Korea visits his South Korean counterpart in Seoul this week, sources said.Glyn Davies, who has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was appointed special envoy to North Korea, replacing Stephen Bosworth.Davies was introduc
Dec. 5, 2011
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South Korea to give $5.7 million to N.K. through UNICEF
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the government will offer $5.65 million to North Korea for humanitarian purposes through the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF.The donated money will be used for vaccines for children and pregnant women, medicine kits for children, instant foods, food supplements and nutrients for prevention of malnutrition. The government said the donation will benefit about 1.46 million North Koreans.“The decision is in line with the government’s basic stance of
Dec. 5, 2011
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Marshmallows to be sent to N. Korea on Christmas Eve
A civic group led by a U.S. pastor said it will send marshmallows in balloons to North Korea on Christmas Eve.Seoul USA, which annually launches balloons into North Korea containing religious material and daily necessities, said it will send thousands of marshmallow stars, Christmas trees and reindeer into the world’s most isolated country.“The balloons are launched from secret locations on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone,” the group said in a statement.Eric Foley, co-founder and
Dec. 2, 2011
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U.S. lawmakers urge POW return from North Korea
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday unanimously approved a symbolic resolution calling on North Korea to return U.S. and South Korean prisoners of war and any civilian detainees.The bill, adopted by House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, urges North Korea to release any such prisoners and admit to abducting more than 100,000 South Korean civilians, reveal their status, and free them.It also presses the U.S. government to resume search and r
Dec. 1, 2011
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Photos confirm mobilization of college students at N.K. construction sites
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Recent photos taken by an American visitor confirmed Thursday that North Korea has mobilized its college students in massive construction projects in Pyongyang ahead of a milestone political event next year.The North has launched the construction drive as part of attempts t
Dec. 1, 2011
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Court rejects arrest warrant for police chief assailant
A local court on Tuesday rejected the prosecution’s request to arrest a man accused of assaulting Jongno Police Chief Park Geon-chan. The Seoul Central District Court said it was unclear whether Park was assaulted, and that the accused, identified by his family name Kim, had the right to defend himself from the accusations.Kim, 54, was apprehended on Nov. 27 after police film footage showed him grabbing Park’s cap and yelling at him around 9:30 p.m. during a rally against the ratification of the
Nov. 30, 2011
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N.K.’s fiery words may be complaints about inter-Korean relations
A sudden increase in the vehemence of North Korea’s anti-South Korea propaganda may be a show of dissatisfaction at unchanging inter-Korean relations.Beginning in the final days of November, the North began making anti-Seoul statements with renewed vigor.On Nov. 24, North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency reported that the Supreme Command of the North Korean People’s Army would turn Cheong Wa Dae into a “sea of fire” and that the fire will grow until it destroys “the base of the traitors.”The th
Nov. 30, 2011
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N.K. claims uranium, reactor projects progressing rapidly
North Korea announced on Wednesday that its enriched uranium production efforts are “progressing apace,” scoffing at calls from South Korea and the U.S. to halt all related programs.North Korea has called for an early resumption of the six-party talks without preconditions, but South Korea and the U.S. insist Pyongyang must first take concrete steps to show its sincerity, such as a monitored shutdown of its uranium enrichment plant.Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said that it was speeding up the co
Nov. 30, 2011
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‘Two Koreas should restore channel of communication for improving ties’
A U.S. expert on the Korean peninsular issues on Wednesday stressed the need to restore an inter-Korean communication channel to ease the strained ties between the two Koreas.Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korean studies and director for the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, also said that as China’s top priority is regional stability, its policy toward North Korea may not change any time soon.“It is better to have a channel of communication with North Korea than
Nov. 30, 2011
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Six-party talks ‘not effective’ framework for denuclearization of North Korea
A renowned U.S. expert in East Asia affairs said on Wednesday the six-party talks framework is unworkable stressing South Korea and the U.S. should not expect too much of China in resolving North Korean nuclear issues.Balbina Hwang, assistant adjunct professor at Georgetown University, also said that the communist state is unlikely to renounce its nuclear ambitions and will continue to use deceptive means to gain economic concessions at the multilateral denuclearization talks.“We have to underst
Nov. 30, 2011
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Opposition leader urges more exchanges with N. Korea
The head of South Korea's main opposition party called on the Seoul government Tuesday to expand its dialogue with North Korea, claiming only cooperation and exchanges can bring changes to the communist North."Raising the level of exchange and cooperation between the South and the North can change N
Nov. 29, 2011