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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Some junior doctors are returning: Health Ministry
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Woman dangling from power lines rescued by residents holding blanket
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[Kim Seong-kon] Are they warriors or knights?
During the London Olympic Games, Koreans everywhere could be seen heartily cheering on their athletes who were striving for medals only awarded to the best of the best. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of our outstanding athletes throughout the past and presently in London as well, South Korea earned her 100th total medal, and was amazingly ranked fifth in the London Olympics. Our athletes as usual swept the gold medals in archery, as well as winning many medals in fencing. Even better, the South
Aug. 15, 2012
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A policy for peace in the South China Sea
What do you call an ocean that sits atop more than 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, provides transit for $5.3 trillion worth of shipborne trade every year, and is bordered by a half-dozen nations with competing maritime and territorial claims? If you’re a geographer, the South China Sea. If you’re a geostrategist, however, it’s a powder keg ― and one that has been heating up dangerously over the past year. Defusing it peacefully will be a test not
Aug. 14, 2012
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[Daniel Fiedler] Pardons for dangerous drivers
Today is Liberation Day in South Korea. This is the anniversary of the day that Japan surrendered to the United States at the end of World War II and South Korea once again became a free and independent country. This is also a day on which the president of South Korea often issues pardons to many of those who have run afoul of the law. These pardons have often been controversial because some recipients have been close confidants of the president or powerful members of South Korean society or bot
Aug. 14, 2012
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[Albert R. Hunt] Ryan splits from his mentor
Mitt Romney’s running mate, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, is a self-styled disciple of the late Jack Kemp, the buoyant conservative Republican who played a major role in shaping the political agenda in the last quarter of the 20th century. The relationship was real. Ryan worked for Kemp as a speechwriter and at his research group; Kemp’s granddaughter was an intern in his protg’s congressional office. Like his mentor, Ryan is passionate, exuberant, intellectually stimulating and devoid
Aug. 13, 2012
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Did we just find someone to take on the banks?
To see how the federal government has pursued money-laundering cases against big banks over their dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. trade sanctions, consider what happened when Barclays Plc and the Justice Department were required to file reports describing the U.K. bank’s cooperation under a settlement in 2010. The deadline came and went. Barclays and the Justice Department failed to comply, infuriating U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of Washington, who had ordered that the r
Aug. 13, 2012
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Romney-Ryan could stimulate contest of ideas
By choosing U.S. Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has added some verve to what had been a tedious presidential contest. Romney deserves credit for his audacity, to borrow a word from his opponent. The question is whether the Republican campaign’s newfound energy will be used more to obfuscate or illuminate. If the latter, voters might find that the two presidential candidates agree more than they would have you believe. The debates over such phony issues as whether Romne
Aug. 13, 2012
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Is culture the key to Israel’s success?
Three years ago, Dan Senor, now a foreign-policy adviser to Mitt Romney, was in my radio studio promoting a book he’d co-authored called “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle.” It is a book that Romney acknowledges as having shaped his thinking on Israel.Back then, Senor laughed when I said reading the book made me think of something once told to me by Bobby Greenberg, a businessman and former Philadelphia treasurer: “Always try to dress British and think Yiddish.” But Senor w
Aug. 13, 2012
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[Noeleen Heyzer] Youth in Asia-Pacific: An age of opportunity
The recent Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development focused world attention on building the future we want. On the occasion of International Youth Day, we should remember that we have a very precious resource in providing for a sustainable future, namely our young people.Over 60 percent of the world’s youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. They represent a key asset for the countries of our regio
Aug. 13, 2012
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[David Ignatius] Egypt’s scapegoat for Sinai attack
WASHINGTON ― In firing Egypt’s chief of intelligence for his alleged failings in Sinai, President Mohamed Morsi sacked a general who has won high marks from U.S., Israeli and European intelligence officials ― and who, ironically, has been one of the Egyptians pushing for a crackdown on the growing militant presence in Sinai. Last week’s shuffle is bound to raise concerns among U.S. and Israeli officials about the security policies of Morsi’s government, and its seeming mutual self-protection pac
Aug. 12, 2012
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Make it hard for parents to deny kids vaccines
The U.S. this year is set to have the worst outbreak of whooping cough since the 1970s. Already, from January to mid-July, there have been 17,000 registered cases and nine deaths. Like the whoop that punctuates the cough, this number is a warning that something is very wrong. The increase, researchers suspect, is partly due to the waning effect of whooping cough vaccines introduced in the 1990s to replace older formulations. It’s also connected to the rising number of parents who refuse to get t
Aug. 12, 2012
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Playing to lose is strategy, not a scandal
Olympic athletes want to win ― we all know that. So why are they being disqualified for trying to lose? After the badminton scandal that marred the early days of the games, the latest athlete to be kicked out was Algerian middle-distance runner Taoufik Makhloufi, who walked off the course in an 800 meters semifinal on Aug. 6. Makhloufi got lucky. After an appeal, the International Association of Athletics Federations accepted the doubtful excuse that he was feeling injured, and reinstated him. T
Aug. 12, 2012
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The right way for the U.S. to help Syria’s rebels
As diplomatic options for ending the conflict in Syria have failed, calls to arm and provide air support for Syrian rebels are becoming more widespread ― with several senators, a former Bush administration senior official and a former Obama State Department official leading the charge.Although we share their commitment to a humanitarian end to the brutality of the Assad regime, arguments to support the rebels militarily are based on three common assumptions that do not withstand scrutiny:― Milit
Aug. 12, 2012
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[Peter Sutherland] EU nations need trust, not control, for euro survial
LONDON ― When Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, publicly proclaimed that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to ensure the future stability of the euro, the effect of his remarks was immediate and remarkable. Borrowing costs fell dramatically for the governments of Italy and Spain; stock markets rallied; and the recent decline in the external value of the euro was suddenly checked.It remains unclear how long-lasting the effects of Draghi’s intervention ― or of the public
Aug. 12, 2012
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[Romano Prodi] Adopting positive agenda for EU
BOLOGNA, Italy ― Germany and Europe share a common destiny, a destiny requiring Germany to assume a real leadership. Germany cannot disengage from Europe. In the past, famous thinkers such as Goethe, Kant and Schiller brought Germany to the forefront of the effort to reconcile national identity, European action and cosmopolitan responsibility. Today, Germany must once again return to its best traditions to relaunch Europe and prepare a better future.During the current crisis, we have felt that G
Aug. 10, 2012
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Marilyn Monroe, the eternal shape shifter
Why is Marilyn Monroe still an American icon 50 years after her death? She is endlessly analyzed in films and biographies; her image appears on T-shirts and posters; her popularity is reflected in the 52,000 Marilyn-related items for sale on eBay. My University of Southern California students, fixated on contemporary pop culture, know little about 1950s Hollywood stars, except for Monroe. Like everyone else, they puzzle over her death, respond to her beauty, recognize her paradoxes: the ur-blond
Aug. 10, 2012
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Restricted public disclosure invites public distrust
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has at long last made public, albeit partially, video images of in-house teleconferences held during the crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to discuss countermeasures.The video footage is valuable data for evaluating the crisis management capabilities of the government and the utility.But the publicized images were limited to about 150 hours of teleconferences held from March 11, 2011 ― when the crisis began ― to March 16. Such partial disclosure will only
Aug. 10, 2012
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Myanmar: Old habits die hard for the powerful
Censorship is alive and well in Myanmar despite all the enthusiasm surrounding the promises of reforms by Nay Pyi Daw’s leaders that there would be no press censorship in the country from now on. Unfortunately the truth inside Myanmar tells a different story. Local journalists have condemned the return of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), which has halted indefinitely the publication of two weeklies, The Voice and the Envoy. The publications allegedly violated the so-called 20
Aug. 10, 2012
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Is Japan still the land of the rising sun?
Japan’s economy has been described as being neither dead nor alive for so long that its detractors could be missing positive signals. The first-quarter gain was 1 per cent ― twice the rate of the United States, which nobody would suggest is a failed economy. If the full year brings 2 percent growth projected on the stimulus of the earthquake and tsunami rebuilding program, it will accentuate a positive trend of the past decade which has shown seven years of GDP gains since 2002. This will make J
Aug. 10, 2012
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[Andrew Sheng] Do stock markets serve investors?
At its height, the British Empire was one of the largest in the world, with less than 1 percent of world population controlling at its height one quarter of the world’s population and one-fifth of the world’s land area. One reason for the empire’s longevity is its ability to adapt to changing conditions and to have an objective feedback mechanism. Whenever the government got into trouble, it would establish a royal commission of experts or simply invite a prominent person to head a committee to
Aug. 10, 2012
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Revising the U.S.-ROK New Missile Guidelines
Since January 2011, the governments of the Republic of Korea and the United States have been negotiating a revision of the U.S.-ROK New Missile Guidelines. The ROK government is demanding a more flexible agreement that allows for enhanced missile capabilities, including an extension to range and warhead weight. South Korea considers these revisions critical to robust military deterrence against North Korea. Since the guidelines limit the maximum range of South Korea’s missiles to less than 300 k
Aug. 9, 2012