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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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N. Korea, Russia call off summit talk plan: sources
MOSCOW (Yonhap News) -- North Korea and Russia appear to have canceled their plan to hold talks between their leaders later this week, multiple sources here said Tuesday following a series of media reports of the possibility of a trip to Russia by the North's leader, Kim Jong-il."It's my understanding that a summit between Chairman Kim Jong-il and President Dmitry Mevedev was known to be scheduled
June 29, 2011
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N.K. students get 10 month vacation for economic revitalization
North Korean universities are to be closed for the next ten months in order to supply laborers for construction projects.As the next year marks 100th anniversary for the birth of the “eternal leader” Kim Il-sung, the government is striving to restore its economy in order to create a “strong and powerful nation of socialism.”Pyongyang announced that all universities would be closed from June 27, al
June 29, 2011
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N. Korean leader will visit Russia this week: reports
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is expected to visit Russia this week for a summit with President Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese news media reported Tuesday, drawing attention to the much-veiled meeting. The two former ally states are putting final touches to the summit slated for Friday in Vladivostok, Tokyo’s Mainichi Shimbun said, quoting multiple intelligence sources in Moscow.Kyodo news service sa
June 28, 2011
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Red Cross officials of two Koreas may meet in Beijing in July
Red Cross officials of the two Koreas are expected to meet for the first time in nearly four months at an international meeting in China in July, a Seoul official said Tuesday. The two Koreas, who have not been talking since their last round of Red Cross talks in March, will send delegations to the “East Asian regional Red Cross leadership meeting” which will be held in China’s Ordos City from Jul
June 28, 2011
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Why Northern Kingdom’s heir had plastic surgeries
Kim Jung-un, heir apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jon-il, allegedly had several plastic surgeries before his public debut.The secret was revealed during a conference held by Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security at London. According to Ha Tae-kyung, representative of Open Radio for North Korea, Kim Jung-un was designated as the successor in 2007, and had about six plastic su
June 28, 2011
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N. Korea remains on worst-human trafficking nation list
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- Despite North Korea's reported tightening of border security to block the defection of its hunger-stricken people, the communist nation has made no efforts to prevent human trafficking by screening migrants along its porous border with China and Russia, the U.S. said Monday.In its annual Global Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department ranked North Korea once
June 28, 2011
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N. Korean leader to visit Russia for summit: report
TOKYO (Yonhap News) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is expected to visit Russia later this week for summit talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday.The Mainichi Shimbun, a major daily, reported that North Korea and Russia are in final consultations to hold the summit in Vladivostok on Friday. It quoted multiple intelligence sources in Moscow.It would be Kim’s
June 28, 2011
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N.K. may have grid-disabling nuke
North Korea may have developed a “super-EMP” weapon capable of emitting more gamma radiation than a 25-megaton nuclear weapon, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst was quoted as saying by a U.S.-funded radio station Friday. Peter Vincent Pry told the Voice of America that a group of Russian nuclear weapons scientists approached him in 2004 to warn the U.S. that the technology to make the electroma
June 24, 2011
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S. Korea to open N.K. info center
South Korea said Thursday it is working on establishing a state-run open source-based center to consolidate scattered information on its reclusive northern rival. The purported center, which will be fully open to government officials as well as the general public here, will gather and organize information that has already been made public by the media and international agencies, an official at the
June 23, 2011
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N. Korea pushing to sign double taxation avoidance deal with China
North Korea is pressing to ink a deal with China to prevent double taxation, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said Wednesday, signaling an apparent bid to attract investment from its key ally and the world's No. 2 economy.The isolated country has already signed similar accords with Egypt and 11 other countries and negotiations are under way with other countries, the Chosun Sinbo reported, citing a North
June 22, 2011
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Academics create digitized archive of Korean War
NEW YORK (Yonhap News) ― A group of South Korean and U.S. academics is working to revisit the Korean War six decades later in a tech-savvy way: by digitizing photos, maps, official documents and video footage of interviews with war veterans.The move comes as the two Koreas this week mark the 61st anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 war, in which a total of 21 nations dispatched troops to help
June 22, 2011
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Official guidebook offers glimpse of N.K. society
A North Korean government text disclosed by a South Korean protestant missionary group named Caleb Mission earlier this week offered a glimpse of the reclusive state’s unique adaptation of the market economy.North Korea, was also seeing attempts to dodge military duty, widespread bribery and patients opting for euthanasia.The classified guidebook for law enforcement authorities published by the No
June 22, 2011
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‘China struggling with N.K. drugs’
Meth floods Yanji, Jilin province fueled by border transients: NewsweekWhile cautious not to make the case official for the sake of ties with its longstanding ally, China is becoming impatient with the increasing amount of illegal drugs flowing in from North Korea, according to a U.S. weekly magazine. Over the past decade, methamphetamine ― also known as crystal meth or ice because of its flaky cr
June 22, 2011
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N. Korea could test-launch missile at new launch site this year: expert
North Korea could test-launch a missile this year from its second and more sophisticated launch site, in an apparent move to improve its long-range missile capabilities, a U.S. expert said Tuesday. South Korean and U.S. officials have monitored the new Tongchang-ri missile base on the North's west coast for more than two years, and satellite images showed early this year that construction of a
June 21, 2011
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N. Korea buys more anti-riot gear from China
BEIJING (Yonhap News) ― North Korea has recently created a special police task force and bought large amounts of anti-riot gear from China in an apparent attempt to cope with any possible riots in the North, a source said Tuesday.The communist North purchased tear gas, helmets and shields through Chinese merchants in China’s northeastern city of Shenyang in recent months, the source said.The North
June 21, 2011
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N. Korea increases imports of anti-riot gear from China
BEIJING, June 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has recently created a special police task force and bought large amounts of anti-riot gear from China in an apparent attempt to cope with any possible riots in the North, a source said Tuesday.The communist North purchased tear gas, helmets and shields through Chinese merchants in China's northeastern city of Shenyang in recent months, the source said.The
June 21, 2011
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Seoul to discuss assets at N.K. resort this week
South Korea is likely to discuss with companies this week how to deal with North Korea’s request that Seoul promptly deal with the issue of disposing its assets in the North’s scenic mountain resort. The two Koreas had launched a joint tour project at the North’s Mount Geumgang in 1998 as a symbol of reconciliation. The tours, which had been one of impoverished Pyongyang’s main sources of income,
June 20, 2011
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Alleged N. Korean police document reports case of cannibalism
SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- An alleged North Korean police document reported a case of cannibalism, a South Korean missionary group said Monday, a development, if confirmed, that could support what has long been rumored in the North.There have been accounts among some defectors of eating human flesh amid chronic food shortages that culminated in a massive famine in the late 1990s that was estimated
June 20, 2011
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North Korea replaces ambassador to Germany
North Korea replaced its top envoy to Germany, the country’s official news agency said Saturday.Ri Si-hong was appointed the new ambassador to the European nation under a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, the North’s legislature, according to a one-sentence dispatch of the Korean Central News Agency.It provided no further details.Little is known about Ri, except that he acc
June 19, 2011
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‘N. Korea has nothing to gain from provocations’
North Korea has nothing to gain from provocations against South Korea, Seoul’s Cabinet minister handling inter-Korean relations said Saturday, urging the communist nation to carry out reform and open up to the outside world.Unification Minister Hyun In-taek accused Pyongyang of launching “reckless political provocations after militaryprovocations,” referring to the North’s unilateral disclosure of
June 19, 2011