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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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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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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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KT launches new mobile plans for foreign residents
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North Koreans still undergo hardships, recent visitor says
A British professor who recently visited North Korea said Pyongyang citizens are still impoverished, though North Korean media are pouring out reports on how their factories and companies have boosted production. The North Korean mouthpieces, including the North Korean Central Broadcasting Station, have been releasing news reports about how the communist state’s light industries and factories overachieved their initial production targets.Hazel Smith, professor of security at Cranfield University
Nov. 16, 2011
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U.S. ‘concerned’ about N.K. light water reactor in Yongbyon
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States raised concerns Tuesday over a nuclear reactor in North Korea that the communist state claims will soon start operating.North Korea’s uranium enrichment program “and construction of a light-water reactor violate U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as their commitment to the 2005 joint statement,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.“We have concerns,” said Toner. “Certainly we’re concerned about the matter.”North Korea on Nov. 10 announced throug
Nov. 16, 2011
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N. Korean defectors seek refuge abroad
Experts say better social care needed to help them adapt to life in SouthMany North Korean defectors who risked their lives to come here have sought asylum in other countries after failing to adapt to life in the South, where they initially thought a rosy future lay ahead.When they land on foreign soil on a travel visa, they immediately discard their passports to disguise themselves as asylum seekers coming directly from the impoverished state, according to defectors and North Korea experts.Expe
Nov. 16, 2011
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Iran denies nuclear cooperation with N. Korea
The Iranian Embassy in Seoul claimed Tehran has indigenous technology for a peaceful nuclear program, saying it is opposed to the development of nuclear weapons. “Iran’s nuclear technology is completely domestically made, thus no foreign experts are needed,” the embassy said in an e-mail statement. The statement came one day after Yonhap news agency reported that hundreds of North Korean nuclear and missile experts have been collaborating with Iranian counterparts in more than 10 locations acros
Nov. 15, 2011
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Oh asks for global help to save his family in North Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A teary old Korean man appealed Monday to legislators from around the world for help in his desperate efforts to meet his wife and two daughters who he hopes are alive in North Korea.“I believe they are alive. Otherwise, I don’t have a reason to live,” Oh Kil-nam, a 69-year-old retired economist, said at an international forum held on Capitol Hill.He was testifying at the eighth general meeting of the International Parliamentarians’ Coalition for North Korean Refugees
Nov. 15, 2011
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S. Korea adopts more flexible N.K. stance
Seoul sends hepatitis B vaccines to Pyongyang, halts flying propaganda leafletsThe South Korean government has been taking a more “flexible” approach to North Korea since Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik took office in September. The Unification Ministry said Tuesday it had finished sending 1 million hepatitis B vaccines for North Korean children with the help of international aid group Caritas Germany and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare. The vaccinations are worth 1.06 billion w
Nov. 15, 2011
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S. Korean historians visit N.K. for safety survey of royal palace
A group of South Korean historians and cultural artifact experts traveled to North Korea on Monday to conduct a joint safety survey of the site of an ancient royal palace in the communist state, officials said. The visit was to follow up on a meeting held in North Korea on Oct. 28 between historians of the two Koreas in which they reached a consensus for a quick resumption of a long-stalled inter-Korean project to excavate the site.The two Koreas launched the project to uncover the remains of Ma
Nov. 14, 2011
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N. Korea's propaganda Web site adds links to SNS sites
North Korea's government-run Web site began linking posts critical of South Korea to popular social networking sites (SNS) to allow netizens to more easily spread its message online, in its latest effort to step up cyber propaganda. The official Web site of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunificati
Nov. 14, 2011
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Power consortium to demand $1.89 billion from N. Korea over failed energy project
An international consortium once tasked with building two power-generating nuclear reactors in North Korea will soon demand that the communist country provide US$1.89 billion in compensation for the project's failure, a Seoul official said Monday.The demand comes after North Korea filed its own comp
Nov. 14, 2011
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‘N.K. proposes inter-Korean summit in Jan.’
Group of retired world leaders to send staff to Seoul on MondayA high-ranking North Korean official asked a group of retired world leaders to deliver to Seoul his government’s intention to hold an inter-Korean summit in January.The Elders, which includes former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and former-U.S. President Jimmy Carter, will send working-level staff to Seoul Monday to convey Pyongyang’s message and then to North Korea.The delegation will meet with South Korean offi
Nov. 13, 2011
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‘Hundreds of N.K. nuke, missile experts in Iran’
Hundreds of North Korean nuclear and missile experts have been collaborating with their Iranian counterparts in more than 10 locations across the Islamic state, a diplomatic source said Sunday.The revelation lends credence to long-held suspicions that North Korea was helping Iran with a secret nuclear and missile program.It also represents a new security challenge to the international community as it seeks to curb the nuclear ambitions of Pyongyang and Tehran, and thwart trading of nuclear and m
Nov. 13, 2011
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N. Korean leader inspects fish farm
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il inspected a fish farm and related facilities to give on-site guidance to workers, a media report said Friday. The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim toured the gravity-fed river fish farm and hatchery, and expressed sa
Nov. 11, 2011
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N Korea confirms resumption of U.S. soldiers remains recovery effort
North Korea's official news media confirmed Friday that the communist country has resumed joint efforts to recover the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) citing a spokesman for the country's armed forces said Nort
Nov. 11, 2011
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Civilian group to deliver 300 tons of flour to N. Korea
A South Korean civilian relief group with ties to the Unification Church said Friday that it plans to send 300 tons of flour to North Korea early next week. The Ambassadors for Peace said the flour will be sent to a children's home in a town in North Pyeongan Province near the border wit
Nov. 11, 2011
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Bosworth not ruling out N. Korea’s third nuclear test
The former top U.S. official on North Korea policy on Thursday didn't rule out the possibility that Pyongyang could conduct its third nuclear test.In an interview with Kyodo News Agency, Stephen Bosworth, who resigned as the U.S. point man on North Korea last month, said it was "very difficult" to p
Nov. 10, 2011
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N. Korea’s flag carrier cancels its air route with Kuwait
North Korea’s flag carrier has canceled an air route to Kuwait, Airline Route blog says, in what could be Pyongyang’s latest attempt to prevent the news of popular uprisings in the Arab world from reaching the isolated country.The move came less than six months after Air Koryo started a weekly direct flight service between Pyongyang and Kuwait City, Airline Route said Monday on its Web site, citing the carrier’s planned winter operation.In late May, Air Koryo announced the service on its Faceboo
Nov. 10, 2011
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Obama to discuss N. Korea with Chinese, Russian, Japanese leaders
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- When U.S. President Barack Obama holds bilateral summits with his Russian, Chinese and Japanese counterparts in Hawaii later this week, North Korea will be high on agenda, White House officials said Wednesday.Obama is scheduled to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.“We‘ll, of course, address with the Russians a
Nov. 10, 2011
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College admission in N.K. as tough as in South
North Korean students undergo grueling preparations and tough competition to enter prestigious universities just like those in South Korea, according to North Korea experts and defectors.Around this time, students in the North have a hectic schedule in preparation for a set of college entrance exams, just as South Korean students do, they said.Children in the communist state enter four years of elementary school at around eight and then six years of middle-high school, after which they decide wh
Nov. 9, 2011
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N.K. preparing to impact S. Korean elections
Seoul intensifies watch on pro-North websites, voting of overseas residentsElated by former civic activist and lawyer Park Won-soon’s recent election as Seoul mayor, North Korea is gearing up its offensive to influence the upcoming high-profile elections in South Korea through IT technology and refined tactics, observers in Seoul say. The communist North Korea, which is technically still at war with the South, has for years tried to wield influence over the presidential and parliamentary electi
Nov. 9, 2011
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N. Korea growing more sensitive to foreigners’ travel
North Korea is becoming stricter on foreigners’ travel in the country, apparently sensitive to the impact of outside news on the recent death of Libya’s longtime dictator, a U.S.-funded radio station said Tuesday. Not wanting outsiders to bring in recent news on Libya, the North Korean regime is asking foreign officials and businessmen not to leave Pyongyang without approval, Radio Free Asia reported, quoting people in Pyongyang. Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed by revolutionary f
Nov. 8, 2011