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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Pro-Roh lawmaker stakes political life on truth of NLL remarks
Moon Jae-in, an opposition party lawmaker and former chief secretary to late President Roh Moo-hyun, vowed Sunday to leave politics if Roh’s controversial remark on the inter-Korean sea border during the 2007 inter-Korean summit is proven to be true.“The confusion and the division in the public opinion should be ended through disclosing the records (kept) in the National Archives of Korea,” Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic Party said in a statement. “If (the claim over) the rem
June 30, 2013
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Japan estranged as S. Korea and China improve ties
Japan appears further estranged from South Korea and China after the latter agreed last week to deepen their cooperation for peninsular denuclearization and strategic partnership in the economy, security and other areas.Ahead of the upper-house elections later this month, nationalist Japanese politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have enraged Seoul and Beijing with their recent remarks and behavior that failed to atone for the country’s wartime atrocities.Becoming the first South Korea
June 30, 2013
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Park speaks Chinese for 4 minutes in university speech
President Park Geun-hye delivered a speech in both Korean and Chinese at Tsinghua University on Saturday, speaking Chinese for 20 percent of the 20-minute speech.The South Korean president kicked off her friendship address in Chinese with a saying from the ancient classic Guanzi, and then delivered the main thesis in Korean before she again spoke in Chinese to bid her wishes in front of more than 400 people including Liu Yandong, the Chinese Vice Premier.Before Park embarked on her four-day vis
June 30, 2013
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Park stretches lead at US Women's Open
World number one Park In-Bee was the only player to break par in the third round of the US Women's Open on Saturday, stretching her lead to four strokes over compatriot I.K. Kim.Park, seeking a slice of LPGA history as she chases a third major title in as many major championships this season, birdied the 18th hole at Sebonack Golf Club to cap a one-under par 71 that gave her a 10-under total of 206."I'm just going to try to do the same thing that I did for the last three days," Park said of her
June 30, 2013
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Park offers to repatriate 360 sets of remains of Chinese troops killed in Korean War
South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered Saturday to return hundreds of sets of remains of Chinese troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, her spokeswoman said, in a symbolic gesture of friendship toward a former battlefield foe.Park made the offer during a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong at Beijing's Tsinghua University right before delivering a speech at the alma mater of Chinese President Xi Jinping, presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing told reporters.Kim made the announcemen
June 30, 2013
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South Korea stops anti-North leaflet launch
South Korean police on Saturday stopped a planned launch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets following a threat of violent retaliation by the North.A group of defectors from North Korea and US human rights activists had said they would use gas-filled balloons to drop 200,000 leaflets critical of Pyongyang over the tense border.But a contingent of plain-clothed policemen prevented the activists from unloading the pamphlets and other materials for the launch from a pickup truck at Imjingak, a tourist site
June 29, 2013
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Park calls for relations of 'trust' with China
President Park Geun-hye delivered a friendship address at the alma mater of Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, calling for the two neighbors to build relations of "trust" based on the big strides they have made in just 20 years of diplomatic ties.Park began the 20-minute speech before students and faculty members at Tsinghua University in Beijing with about five minutes of greetings and opening remarks in the Chinese language, including an ancient Chinese maxim about the importance of edu
June 29, 2013
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Saenuri proposes joint declaration over NLL
The Saenuri Party proposed Friday adopting a joint declaration with the opposition to demonstrate their will to safeguard the Northern Limit Line as a territorial boundary.The main opposition Democratic Party dismissed the proposal by ruling party chief Rep. Hwang Woo-yea. Political strife has been escalating since the National Intelligence Service on Monday revealed the transcript of a 2007 inter-Korean summit. Saenuri accused former President Roh Moo-hyun of having renounced the NLL during the
June 28, 2013
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Ex-lawmaker cleared of defamation charge in BBK case
The nation's top court on Friday acquitted a former lawmaker and popular online show co-host of charges that he slandered eight state prosecutors who investigated an alleged investment scam involving former President Lee Myung-bak.Lee was at the center of a case widely known as the "BBK scandal" named after a firm set up by him and his convicted former business partner, Kim Kyoung-joon, in 2000. The scandal broke at the height of the 2007 presidential race when the Korean-American businessman cl
June 28, 2013
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Parliament extends collection of fines from former leaders
The National Assembly approved the so-called Chun Doo-hwan act that will give authorities more leverage in collecting fines from public officials including former presidents.The measures, introduced by revising the Act on Special Cases Concerning Forfeiture for Offenses by Public Officials, extend the statute of limitation for collecting fines from government officials from three to 10 years, and allow the authorities to confiscate assets held under borrowed names.The revision was approved with
June 27, 2013
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Envoy says Snowden may have options other than Ecuador
A high school dropout-turned-NSA techno whiz kid leaks details of a super-secret government program for mass surveillance on innocent Americans. Then he goes on the lam. Edward Snowden’s story could have been ripped out of the pages of a pulp fiction spy thriller.It was believed he was heading to Ecuador, the only place he officially applied for political asylum.Things changed on Monday. He missed his connecting flight out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport to Havana, Cuba.A diplomat here with clo
June 27, 2013
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Park, Xi vow closer cooperation on N. Korea denuclearization
President Park Geun-hye and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday affirmed intolerance toward North Korea’s nuclear programs and vowed to closely cooperate for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.The two leaders also agreed to bolster bilateral ties with diverse security dialogue including a high-level communication channel, and speed up free-trade negotiations and mutually beneficial economic exchanges, in a joint communiqu released after their first summit talks. Park arrived in Beijing i
June 27, 2013
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DP urges Park to apologize for Saenuri’s ‘spy agency ties’
The main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday urged President Park Geun-hye to apologize over allegations that her ruling Saenuri Party had received the transcript of the 2007 inter-Korean summit from the National Intelligence Agency last year while it was still classified. “(Park) should apologize to the public as soon as she returns (from China) for the Saenuri Party’s political maneuvers during the presidential election,” DP Chairman Rep. Kim Han-gil said during a general meeting of party
June 27, 2013
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Parliament passes bill against ex-president
The National Assembly on Thursday passed a bill aimed at collecting billions of won in fines from a former president who was found to have accumulated large amounts of wealth illegally. The amendment bill calls for extending the statute of limitations on forfeiting and imposing fines on public officials' illegal wealth from three years to 10. Under the revised law, former President Chun Doo-hwan will be required to pay the remainder of his fines by October 2020, not October this year. Chun
June 27, 2013
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Park urged to apologize over ruling party's alleged ties to spy agency
The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) demanded Thursday President Park Geun-hye apologize over allegations that her ruling party mobilized the state spy agency to win last year's presidential election.The demand comes amid growing allegations that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) could have strong ties to the ruling Saenuri Party. Last year, the NIS was accused of conducting an online smear campaign to sway public opinion in favor of the ruling party ahead of December's presidential e
June 27, 2013
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‘NIS posted slanderous comments about Roh’s death’
The South Korean spy agency posted slanderous online comments about former President Roh Moo-hyun immediately after he committed suicide in 2009, lawmaker Jin Sun-mee of the main opposition Democratic Party claimed Wednesday.Jin said officials at the National Intelligence Service posted hundreds of comments criticizing Roh and the commemoration of the late president by his supporters, citing criminal records concerning the NIS intervention in the presidential elections provided by the Seoul Cent
June 26, 2013
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NIS chief urged to step down over transcript disclosure
The main opposition party turned up the heat on the nation's spy chief Wednesday to resign over his decision to disclose a summit transcript containing late South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's controversial remarks on the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea.Monday's disclosure of the transcript has thrown rival political parties into a fierce argument over whether Roh actually made remarks undermining the legitimacy of the sea border, called the Northern Limit Line (NLL), during his 20
June 26, 2013
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DP demands spy chief resign over transcript disclosure
Political strife escalated on Tuesday after the National Intelligence Service revealed the transcripts of the 2007 inter-Korean summit with the main opposition Democratic Party demanding the spy chief resign.On Monday, the NIS disclosed the transcript of the 2007 summit to members of the parliamentary Intelligence Committee in an unexpected move against accusations that it tampered with the records.The transcript, in which former President Roh Moo-hyun is accused of having denied the validity of
June 25, 2013
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[Newsmaker] NIS chief stirs the pot
National Intelligence Service chief Nam Jae-joon did not waste a moment when he authorized the disclosure on Monday of the controversial transcript of the 2007 inter-Korean summit.The spy chief’s decision came just days into a tug-of-war between the rival parties over a parliamentary investigation into the agency’s involvement in last year’s presidential election, and a full disclosure of the transcript containing former President Roh Moo-hyun’s remarks on the Northern Limit Line, the de facto s
June 25, 2013
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Dispute grows over legality of NIS disclosure
The rival parties’ dispute over the legality of the National Intelligence Service’s disclosure of the 2007 inter-Korean summit transcript escalated Tuesday, with opposition figures claiming the document to have been fabricated.Former members of the Roh Moo-hyun administration charged that the disclosed transcript had been faked for political gain.Controversy over the legitimacy of the disclosure as well as different interpretations of the contents of the 100-page log of conversation is expected
June 25, 2013