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Yoon rejects Lee's proposal for pension reform talks
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S. Korea to hold rotating presidency of UN Security Council next month
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US girding for possibility of N. Korea taking most provocative military actions in decade near election: NBC
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Chonnam international student found dead
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Tax-payers shouldering most of burden for pension childbirth credit programs
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Ottogi heir joins family business in US
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Korea signs off on new med school quotas
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NewJeans drops new album amid Hybe-Ador dispute
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Samsung denies report on HBM chips failing Nvidia tests
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Govt. to reduce tariffs on fresh food imports to curb inflation
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NK runs 9 merchant ships under foreign flags: report
North Korea is operating nine merchant vessels by acquiring foreign countries' ship registry despite the US Security Council's sanctions on the North, a media report said Friday, citing a German body on maritime navigation.The Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics told US-based media Radio Free Asia via an e-mail that the nine ships out of the North's ships with a displacement tonnage of 300 tons or higher are running under other countries' flags, a practice called flag of convenience.Qu
Oct. 28, 2016
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Resolution on NK's human rights violations presented to UN committee
A draft resolution accusing North Korea's leadership of serious human rights violations was presented to the United Nations General Assembly's committee Thursday for a review for official adoption, officials said.Upon the introduction to the General Assembly's Third Committee dealing with social, cultural and humanitarian issues, the draft resolution led by Japan and the European Union entered the process of circulation among UN members for approval, according to UN officials. The committee may
Oct. 28, 2016
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US to keep increasing pressure on NK: White House
The United States will keep adding pressure on North Korea to get the communist regime to meet its international obligations, the White House said Thursday.White House press secretary Josh Earnest spoke in response to a question about the suggestion from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that the best possible solution to the North Korean nuclear issue may be a cap on the regime's nuclear capabilities, not denuclearization."Just my understanding is that Director Clapper was making
Oct. 28, 2016
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NK joins Park bashing
North Korea wants Park Geun-hye to step down from office, according to an article in a North Korean newspaper. Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece for Pyongyang‘s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, claimed that the scandal surrounding Park’s close friend Choi Soon-sil has “effectively brought down the administration.”(123rf)“After the rumor that Choi interfered in state affairs was proven to be true, all sectors within South Korea have become enraged,” it said, referring to a series of media reports indi
Oct. 27, 2016
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NK's failed missile tests could have involved KN-08: US expert
North Korea's two failed missile tests earlier this month could have involved the KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental US, not the shorter-range Musudan missile identified by the US and South Korean militaries, an American expert was quoted as saying.Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert and director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, raised the possibility, citing satellite photos of the l
Oct. 27, 2016
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NK will be 'most intractable' problem for next US president: ex-Swedish FM
North Korea will be the "most intractable" issue for the next US president, a former Swedish prime minister said, calling for greater efforts to enlist China's help in reining in the recalcitrant regime.Carl Bildt, who served as Sweden's prime minister from 1991 to 1994 and as foreign minister from 2006 to 2014, made the remark in a recent article to the Project Syndicate, warning that Pyongyang is "slowly but surely progressing toward a deliverable nuclear weapon.""While the crisis in Syria may
Oct. 27, 2016
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S. Korea, Japan agree to step up pressure on NK
Senior diplomats of South Korea and Japan agreed Wednesday to step up pressure on the North Korean regime in response to its evolving nuclear and missile threats, the foreign ministry here said Wednesday. South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam and his Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama reached the agreement during talks in Tokyo ahead of a trilateral meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, the ministry said. Lim and Sugiyama discussed the urgency of the North K
Oct. 26, 2016
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NK unlikely to give up nukes without crushing sanctions: ex-presidential advisor
North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons program in the absence of all-out international sanctions on the country, a former presidential advisor said Wednesday, making his case for tougher actions against Pyongyang. "Against the current backdrop, North Korea's denuclearization is surely improbable," Chun Yung-woo, former presidential advisor for national security, said in a forum hosted by the state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. North Korea's wi
Oct. 26, 2016
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Senior N.K. official arrives in Vietnam for global meeting
A senior North Korean communist party official arrived in Vietnam Wednesday to attend an international conference amid global pressure over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, was seen at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport with several aides after reportedly visiting Dubai. He left Pyongyang on Monday and traveled via Beijing. Ri, a former North Korean foreign minister, plans to attend the 18th International Meetin
Oct. 26, 2016
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Chinese exports of jet fuel to NK up nearly 400% in September: data
Chinese export of jet fuel to North Korea jumped nearly 400 percent in September from a year earlier, data showed Wednesday, a move that could indicate Pyongyang can take advantage of tightened UN sanctions on the North.China exported jet fuel worth $9.7 million to North Korea last month, up 391 percent from a year earlier, according to data compiled by the Beijing office of Korea International Trade Association.Chinese exports of jet fuel to North Korea fell 13.1 percent on-year to $31.65 milli
Oct. 26, 2016
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US to release second blacklist of N. Korean officials involved in human rights abuses in December
The United States plans to release a second blacklist in December of North Korean officials and entities to be sanctioned for their involvement in human rights violations, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.Scott Busby, deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, made the remark during a seminar, saying increasing accountability of North Korean officials is one of the three US strategies to improve the human rights situation in the North.In July, the US imposed
Oct. 26, 2016
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Failed Musudan missile launch burned mobile launcher
North Korea's failed Musudan missile launch caused considerable damage to one of its mobile launchers, official sources here said Wednesday, the latest sign of shortcomings in the country's military capabilities. Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile, believed to be a Musudan, last Thursday from an airfield in the northwestern city of Kusong. The intermediate-range ballistic missile is known to have exploded soon after liftoff. This launch appeared to have been an attempt by the North to save f
Oct. 26, 2016
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Efforts to get NK to denuclearize 'probably a lost cause': US intelligence chief
Any effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program "is probably a lost cause" and putting a cap on the regime's nuclear capabilities is the "best we could probably hope for," the US intelligence chief said Tuesday."I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause. That is their ticket to their survival. I got a good taste of that when I was there about how the world looks from their vantage and they're under siege and they're very paranoid," Dire
Oct. 26, 2016
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NK has 3.24 mln mobile phones, 13 subscriptions per 100 people: research
The number of mobile phones being used in North Korea came to 3.24 million as of July last year, a US broadcaster reported Wednesday, citing the US Central Intelligence Agency's recently updated version of the World Factbook.The Voice of America said the North's mobile phone subscriptions per 100 residents came to 13, securing 142nd place on the list of the 217 countries surveyed in the factbook.South Korea, ranked 27th in the world, has 58.93 million mobile phones and 120 subscriptions per 100
Oct. 26, 2016
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Korea conducts crackdown on smuggled NK products
South Korea on Tuesday conducted a crackdown on smuggled North Korean products coming in from third countries in a move to faithfully enforce United Nations sanctions and its unilateral punitive actions, government officials said.Seoul's unification ministry and eight government agencies carried out a joint surveillance on North Korean products which are suspected of entering South Korea disguised as goods manufactured in other countries, they said.The ministry said that officials inspected thre
Oct. 25, 2016
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NK's Air Koryo operates flights to only China, Russia: report
The countries to which North Korea's national carrier, Air Koryo, is now able to operate flights has been limited to only China and Russia at a time many countries have endorsed the UN sanctions on the North, a US broadcaster reported Tuesday.According to the Voice of America, the state-owned carrier flew to Kuwait via Urumqi, western China, in August, but Kuwaiti authorities prevented it from landing, forcing it to terminate flights between Pyongyang and Kuwait.Earlier, the Pakistani government
Oct. 25, 2016
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US again downplays informal talks with NK
The United States again downplayed last week's talks between North Korean diplomats and former US nuclear negotiators as "private" and "unofficial" discussions, urging Pyongyang to demonstrate denuclearization commitments so as to reopen the long-stalled nuclear negotiations."There's no US government involvement here. This is done by private citizens and typically they discuss a range of issues. But the United States government isn't sponsoring them. There's no government involvement in it," Sta
Oct. 25, 2016
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Ensuring preparedness against NK threats top priority for next US administration: US military secretaries
Ensuring preparedness against increasing threats from North Korea should be a top priority for the next US administration, top military officials said Monday."North Korea plays heavily in my mind because the situation is so unpredictable and the pace seems to be increasing there. There are quite a few soldiers sitting right there, ready in case something happens," Army Secretary Eric Fanning said in response to a question about what to prioritize to his successor during a security seminar."So, m
Oct. 25, 2016
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Top Chinese diplomat visits N. Korea: KCNA
A top Chinese official arrived in North Korea on Monday for talks on border-related issues, Pyongyang‘s state media said. In a one-paragraph dispatch, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) confirmed that Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin began the trip, leading a Chinese delegation to the third joint committee meeting regarding the border. It stopped short of providing details including Liu’s itinerary. He became the first known high-level Chinese official to make a trip there in eight months. H
Oct. 24, 2016
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‘NK operates team for online propaganda in S. Korea’
North Korea is assessed to be operating a team to conduct cyber “psychological warfare” in South Korea by spreading rumors favorable to Pyongyang, a government source said Monday.According to the source, the North’s cyber team on South Korea mainly focuses on hacking attacks to incapacitate Seoul’s infrastructure and it also distributes fake information to manipulate public opinion here.“North Korea’s organizations on the South, including the General Bureau of Reconnaissance, have been identifie
Oct. 24, 2016