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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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S. Korean activists call off plan to fly anti-N. Korea leaflets
South Korean activists on Thursday called off their plan to fly leaflets denouncing North Korea this weekend, citing personal matters for a key activist involved in the activity. "A family member of a senior official of an activist group has passed away, and we've decided to suspend our plan temporarily," said Choi Sung-yong, head of a group of South Koreans whose family members have been abduct
March 10, 2011
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Congressmen submit bill to help Americans adopt N.K. orphans
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― U.S. congressmen have introduced a bill calling on the Obama administration to help American citizens adopt stateless and orphaned North Korean children adrift in other countries.Sen. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) filed the bill titled “the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011” on Feb. 28, which says, “The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security
March 10, 2011
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Four N. Koreans get ready to settle in Seoul
Despite an ongoing tug of war with North Korea, South Korea has begun the process of officially accepting the four North Koreans who have expressed the wish to defect, officials in Seoul said Wednesday. A North Korean boat carrying 31 people ― 11 men and 20 women ― drifted across the inter-Korean sea border in thick fog on Feb. 5. Of the passengers, 27 expressed a desire to return home while four,
March 10, 2011
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‘S. Korea behind North in electronic warfare’
Experts say latest GPS disruption proves new kind of military threat from NorthNorth Korea’s recent jamming of communications signals in South Korea is drawing keen public attention to its electronic warfare capabilities and raising questions over whether the South is making due efforts to enhance its own capabilities.Last Friday and Sunday, the North sent strong electric waves to the South, tempo
March 9, 2011
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Seoul again urges N.K. to receive its citizens
North Korean officials are free to come and meet four nationals to verify whether they really wish to defect to the South, a senior official here said Wednesday, as Seoul repeated its demand for the prompt repatriation of the remaining 27 North Koreans.In a message to the North on Wednesday, South Korea made its fourth request for the communist state to immediately take back the 27, who were among
March 9, 2011
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S. Korea refuses N.K. demand to see 4 wanting to defect
Pyongyang proposes Red Cross talks over repatriationSouth Korea on Monday rejected North Korea’s demand to meet with the four boat passengers wishing to defect, escalating tensions as the communist state appears determined to have all 31 on board repatriated.In a message to the South, the North Korean Red Cross proposed that working-level officials meet Wednesday at their border village to determi
March 7, 2011
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‘Tanks deployed to fortify N.K. leader’s residences’
North Korea has deployed tanks and other weapons around its leader Kim Jong-il’s residences in Pyongyang to fortify them against a possible revolt spurred by the ongoing antigovernment protests in the Middle East, a Seoul source said Sunday.During a closed-door meeting with lawmakers Friday, a senior official of the National Intelligence Service confirmed reports of such activity, according to a l
March 6, 2011
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27 N. Koreans fail to return home via border village
North Korea refused to receive its 27 nationals South Korea planned to return on Friday after they strayed into southern waters on a fishing boat, the South's unification ministry said.The North Koreans, part of the boat's 31-member crew, waited for hours near the border village of Panmunjom for an approval from their government to go home."A North Korean liaison officer at Panmunjom called at abo
March 5, 2011
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Four North Koreans’ decision to live in South may add chill to bilateral relations
North Korea did not respond on Friday to the proposal to send back 27 of the 31 North Koreans whose fishing boat strayed across the western inter-Korean sea border on Feb. 5.Despite Pyongyang’s repeated calls to send all of its nationals back, Seoul has decided to return only 27. The South says that it cannot repatriate the four who wish to stay here, based on “international humanitarian principle
March 4, 2011
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‘N.K. regime change not Washington’s goal’
Bosworth says U.S. assessing need for food in North, aid monitoring essentialWASHINGTON ― The U.S. point man on North Korea said Tuesday that regime change in North Korea is not Washington’s goal.“We do not regard regime change as the outcome of our policy, but we do regard a change in regime behavior as necessary to any fundamental improvement in the overall relationship,” Stephen Bosworth, U.S.
March 2, 2011
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N. Korea asked Western diplomat for rice assistance: source
North Korea has recently asked a visiting Western diplomat for rice assistance, a South Korean government source said Wednesday. The diplomat, from one of the European Union member countries, visited the communist nation in mid-February and was surprised when North Korean officials requested food aid, the source said. "I did not hear of anyone who had died of starvation," the diplomat, howe
March 2, 2011
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‘N. Korea unlikely to collapse’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― The international community should not expect North Korea to collapse soon through popular uprisings but instead seek an incremental approach to build trust with the nuclear-armed communist state, an expert said Sunday.Andray Abrahamian, a freelance writer on Korea issues who teaches at Social Science College of the University of Ulsan, South Korea, dismissed chances of
Feb. 28, 2011
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North Korea threatens attack over Southern propaganda
North Korea on Sunday threatened to strike South Korean psychological warfare apparatus on the border “in light of self-defense,” in more tough rhetoric ahead of the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise to begin Monday. Civic group members send propaganda leaflets to North Korea at the Imjingak Pavilion near the inter-Korean border on Feb. 16. (Yonhap News)“Should the anti-North psychological
Feb. 28, 2011
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N.K. threatens attack on Southern propaganda
North Korea on Sunday threatened to strike South Korean psychological warfare apparatus on the border “in light of self-defense,” in more tough rhetoric ahead of the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise to begin Monday.“Should the anti-North psychological warfare continue, our army will directly fire at the (Imjin) Pavilion and other origins of the psychological warfare to destroy them under t
Feb. 27, 2011
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‘No 6-party talks unless uranium issue is tackled’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― South Korea cannot agree to resume six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs unless the illicit nature of Pyongyang’s uranium enrichment is clearly defined first, a senior official said Friday.“We have to get the (U.N.) Security Council to define the nature of this matter and take corresponding steps,” the official told South Korean reporters in Washington. “The
Feb. 27, 2011
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Seoul to return N.K. boat passengers
The 31 North Koreans who arrived in South Korea by boat earlier this month will be sent home sometime this week, a Seoul official said Sunday.“As far as I know, the joint interrogation (by relevant authorities) is in the final phase,” the official said. “And since no one expressed a wish to defect, we will repatriate all 31 of them as early as this week through Panmunjeom (the border village).” On
Feb. 27, 2011
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North Korea threatens to fire at South Korea
SEOUL (AP) _ North Korea says it will fire at South Korea if it continues allowing activists to launch propaganda leaflets toward the North. The North's official Korean Central News Agency says the country's military conveyed the warning to South Korea's military Sunday. The warning comes one day before South Korea kicks off annual military drills with the United States. The North says the
Feb. 27, 2011
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N. Korea touts youth's role for ambitious goal next year
North Korea held a meeting of young leaders Saturday, urging them to play a bigger role in building a "great, prosperous and powerful country" by next year, the country's media said. The North's communist regime has set 2012, the centennial of the birth of its late founder and president, Kim Il-sung, as the deadline for achieving the goal. Although such gatherings with young people are c
Feb. 27, 2011
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US groups report alarming malnutrition in NKorea
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Severe food shortages are forcing some North Koreans to forage for wild grasses and herbs and causing alarming malnutrition among children, U.S.-based aid groups who recently visited the reclusive country reported Wednesday.Heavy rains and flooding in summer reduced vegetable crops by more than 50 percent in some areas, and a bitter winter has frozen up to 50 percent of wheat and
Feb. 24, 2011
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China’s influence on N.K. exaggerated
Professor says bilateral discussions needed before 6-party talksSouth Korea wants to protect its security and economic growth from North Korea’s threats, while the U.S. wants to defend its ally and its regional interests. Both of them would like China’s help in dealing with the rogue state led by Kim Jong-il. But what does China want? China expert and Yonsei University professor of international s
Feb. 23, 2011