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South Korea, the U.S. and Japan are ramping up their diplomatic efforts to ensure policy coherence and cooperation in the face of North Korea’s peace offensive. Cho Tae-yong, Seoul’s special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, left for Washington on Tuesday to...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:44
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Seoul City plans to introduce various rainwater management facilities and permeable pavements in public buildings as part of plans to save water and protect the environment.The metropolitan government will also provide subsidies to district offices to build systems to conserve and reuse na...
Updated : 2013.06.18 20:42
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South Korea has invited North Korea to attend next year's Asian Games to be held in the western port city of Incheon, a senior government official said Tuesday. "We asked North Korea to participate in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games some two months ago via the Olympic Council of Asia (OC...
Updated : 2013.06.18 15:56
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The United States sees no difference between North Korea's latest offer of bilateral talks and its previous ones because a sincere intent is apparently lacking about denuclearization, the State Department said Monday.It emphasized that the international community has been very consistent a...
Updated : 2013.06.18 10:01
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North Korea’s surprise offer of dialogue with the U.S. on Sunday was met with a frosty reaction by Seoul and Washington, which both call on Pyongyang to prove sincerity with its actions before resumi...
Updated : 2013.06.17 20:25
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye conferred by phone with U.S. President Barack Obama about the North Korean nuclear standoff on Monday, her spokeswoman said, a day after the communist nation offered to hold high-level talks with Washington.During the 20-minute talk, Obama briefed Park ...
Updated : 2013.06.17 15:33
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The White House said Sunday North Korea should first prove its seriousness about dialogue through actions, "not nice words," effectively turning down the communist nation's offer of bilateral negotiations without "preconditions" attached."Those talks have to be real. They have to be based ...
Updated : 2013.06.17 09:18
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says it wants ``credible negotiations'' with North Korea that will lead to a nuclear-free North.The Obama administration is responding to a proposal by North Korea's top governing body for high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States.The ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 22:38
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North Korea on Sunday proposed high-level talks with the U.S. over military tensions, a peace treaty and the U.S. proposal for a nuclear-free world.The proposal from the powerful National Defense Comm...
Updated : 2013.06.16 21:01
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A new survey showed that 18.4 percent of Korean teenagers are addicted to their smartphone, a sharp rise from last year’s 11.4 percent. The corresponding figure for those aged 20-49 stood at 9.1 perc...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:57
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North Korea asked China last month to be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, a source familiar with Seoul-Beijing affairs said Sunday, amid indications China is taking a firm stance against Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programs.North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae made the request i...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:55
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North Korea’s prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong-un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang’s notorious network of labor camps and detention centers. Soon a...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:50
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North Korea on Saturday marked the anniversary of a historic 2000 summit with South Korea, with state media urging Seoul to fundamentally change what it called a “policy of confrontation” against the communist nation.The fist-ever inter-Korean summit touched off a flurry of economic and ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:50
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North Korea proposed high-level talks with the United States on Sunday, days after its planned talks with South Korea broke down over the level of their chief delegates."(We) propose high-level talks ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 10:37
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South Korea's foreign minister held a meeting with diplomatic mission chiefs in Southeast Asia on Saturday and discussed ways to ensure the safety of North Korean asylum seekers passing through those countries, the foreign ministry said.The meeting in Singapore came after public outrage ov...
Updated : 2013.06.16 09:31
