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‘Gimflation’ in S. Korea as dried seaweed prices grow on rising global demand
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S. Korea's gender pay gap worst in OECD
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Yoon to resume diplomatic activity via 3-way summit with Japan, China
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South Korea unveils W26tr support program for chip industry
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SM, YG Entertainment’s K-pop groups benefit from troubles at Hybe
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S. Korea to hold rotating presidency of UN Security Council next month
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Student nabbed for biking naked 'due to stress'
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Embryo activist: Baby's lawsuit takes on S. Korea climate inaction
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BOK holds rate at 3.5%, ups growth outlook
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Police arrest mastermind behind last year's palace vandalism
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Britain effectively deports 2 N. Korean insurance firm officials
Britain has effectively deported two London-based officials of North Korea's state insurance firm by refusing to renew their visas after the firm was slapped with sanctions in the wake of Pyongyang's January nuclear test, a diplomatic source said.In April, Britain blacklisted the North's Korea National Insurance Corp. and its London office in line with European Union sanctions imposed after the North's fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February."It's part of implem
Sept. 28, 2016
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US sanctions Chinese firm tied with NK
South Korea on Tuesday welcomed the US’ imposition of sanctions on a Chinese firm suspected to have provided financial services and illicit goods that may have helped beef up North Korea’s nuclear and missile program. The US Treasury on Monday blacklisted Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development, an industry machinery wholesaler, and four of its executives, including founder Ma Xiaohong. The Department of Justice also laid criminal charges against them for “conspiring to evade” its sanctions and
Sept. 27, 2016
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Time running out for separated families: lawmaker
An opposition lawmaker said Tuesday an average of 3,000 South Koreans with separated families in the North are dying every year, while only a few of them given the opportunity for a reunion.According to the data compiled by Rep. Lee Seok-hyun of the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea, 67,740 of 130,982 South Koreans with families in North Korea have died so far, with only 1.8 percent of them having been granted a chance to be reunited with long-lost loved ones.A separate data compiled by Hyun
Sept. 27, 2016
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NK threatens to use nukes to retaliate against US
North Korea threatened to use nukes to retaliate against the United States if Washington policymakers continue to blackmail Pyongyang with nuclear weapons, the North's state media said Tuesday.North Korea's Institute of International Studies on Monday unveiled a memorandum exposing what it called Washington's nuclear crimes, according to the Korean Central News Agency.It said the criminal nature of Washington's nuclear policy can be most evidently found in its stance toward North Korea."As long
Sept. 27, 2016
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N. Korea denounces Japan-Britain joint drill
North Korea on Saturday denounced Japan for conducting a joint military drill with the Britain, saying that Tokyo is moving to emerge as a military giant, Pyongyang's state-run media reported.Japan and the Britain agreed earlier to hold the countries' first joint fighter drill sometime in October, in defiance of North Korea's provocations."Japan's moves to emerge a military giant have reached a grave phase," according to the Korean Central News Agency report monitored in Seoul.The KCNA further s
Sept. 25, 2016
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N.K. reconfirms my-way approach, clouding outlooks for headway
North Korea's top diplomat has reaffirmed Pyongyang's "my-way" stance in its nuclear development efforts during his latest speech at the United Nations, blaming what he calls the United States' hostile attitude again for causing the current stalemate, experts said Saturday. The North also made clear that it will not give in to growing international pressure to dissuade it from pushing forward with its nuclear ambitions, further clouding outlooks for any imminent breakthrough, they predicted.
Sept. 24, 2016
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Park hosts workshop with senior gov't officials on N.K. nukes, economy
South Korean President Park Geun-hye hosts a gathering of Cabinet ministers and vice ministers to discuss ways to address a series of security and economic challenges facing the nation on Saturday at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. (Yonhap)South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Saturday hosted a gathering of Cabinet ministers and vice ministers to discuss ways to address a series of security and economic challenges facing the nation. The workshop gathering, the first since March 2013,
Sept. 24, 2016
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‘Sanctions not enough to bring change in NK’
Despite the tightening global squeeze on North Korea, Seoul and Washington should narrow their policy objectives and reinitiate engagement in tandem to give the communist state substantive incentives to change course, a renowned US scholar told The Korea Herald. Frank Jannuzi, president and chief executive of the Mansfield Foundation, raised the need for the allies to refine their current North Korea policies, especially after their respective presidential elections, while shoring up sanctions a
Sept. 23, 2016
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Seoul calls on Pyongyang to stop belligerent rhetoric
South Korea called on North Korea to stop its belligerent rhetoric Friday, dismissing its latest threat to "turn Seoul into ashes" as preposterous.In response to the closest-ever flight of two armed US B-1B bombers to North Korea on Wednesday, the communist regime said the following day the nuclear warheads fired by the Korean People's Army will completely reduce Seoul into ashes. "It is absurd that North Korea, which has threatened the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the world
Sept. 23, 2016
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UN agencies in NK request relief fund for flood victims
UN agencies operating in North Korea have called for the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to support a fund to rehabilitate the North's flood-stricken northeast region, a US broadcaster, monitored here, reported on Friday. This summer, six areas in North Hamkyong Province were devastated by heavy rains accompanied by Typhoon Lionrock.CERF has received an application for an emergency relief fund from the offices of UN agencies in North Korea, Christelle Loupforest, the acting chief of the CERF
Sept. 23, 2016
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South Korea condemns NK for conducting nuke test despite floods
South Korea condemned North Korea on Friday for appealing for outside assistance to recover from the latest flood as Pyongyang has poured money into its nuclear and missile programs while neglecting its people's suffering.South Korea's unification ministry said North Korea deserves to be under fire for its lack of actions to cope with the flood damage as it instead focused on conducting the fifth nuclear test in early September."North Korea tries to elicit outside assistance (by saying that the
Sept. 23, 2016
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New UN rapporteur on N. Korean human rights to look into recent high-rank defections
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations' new special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation, said he will look into a recent series of defections by high-ranking North Korean officials.The comments by Quintana, an Argentine lawyer who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in July to replace Marzuki Darusman, were made during a recent interview with Yonhap News Agency. The recent series of high-profile defections by North Korea's elites to South Korea includes Thae Yong-ho, the
Sept. 23, 2016
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Five middle powers voice concern over NK, urge restraint
The five middle powers of MIKTA expressed "grave concern" over North Korea's fifth nuclear test and called on Pyongyang to fully comply with international resolutions and refrain from additional provocations. The foreign ministers of MIKTA, comprised of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia, issued a joint statement on the North's nuclear issue after holding a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday (local time)."We... express grave concern over
Sept. 23, 2016
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South Korean FM calls for UN Security Council to take 'meaningful action' about NK human rights abuses
The UN Security Council should go beyond simply discussing North Korea's human rights violations and take "meaningful action," South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Thursday, as the council is considering fresh sanctions on Pyongyang for its fifth nuclear test.Yun made the remark during a meeting with South Korean correspondents in New York, saying the North's human rights abuses will be one of the key focuses of an address he was scheduled to deliver at the UN General Assembly later i
Sept. 23, 2016
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US expert calls for greater efforts to dispel Chinese concern about negative effects in case of NK collapse
The US should try to dispel China's concern about potential negative effects on its national interests in the event of North Korea's collapse in order to win Beijing's help in pressuring Pyongyang to give up its nuclear programs, a US expert said.Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, also said in an article that should such persuasive efforts toward China fail, the US would have to either live with a North Korea capable of striking the US with nuclear missiles or launch m
Sept. 23, 2016
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Biden, Abe condemn NK nuclear test, vow closer cooperation with South Korea
US Vice President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned North Korea's nuclear and missile tests and vowed to work closely with South Korea to cope with threats from the communist nation, the White House said.Biden and Abe met Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "The leaders condemned North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests and resolved to coordinate closely, including at the United Nations and with the Republic of Korea, in countering this threat,"
Sept. 23, 2016
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NK's new rocket engine suitable for sending unmanned probes to Moon: US expert
North Korea's test of a new rocket engine this week shows the communist nation has made real strides in its rocket and missile programs to a point where it could send unmanned probes to the Moon, a US missile expert said Thursday.The North unveiled the massive new engine Tuesday, claiming it successfully conducted a "ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite." It said the engine has a thrust of 80 tons, which is three times the power of
Sept. 23, 2016
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Experts call for shift in allies' NK policy
As Pyongyang spurs its nuclear development with its fifth nuclear test, South Korea and the US should fine-tune their pressure-focused North Korea policies and seek fresh ways to put a brake on the regime’s weapons program, experts said Thursday. Dozens of renowned analysts from the US, China, Japan and other countries gathered in Seoul for a conference hosted by the Korea Institute for National Unification. Under the theme “Rapidly changing East Asian order and the Korean Peninsula,” they asses
Sept. 22, 2016
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Weak health top hurdle for N. Korean defectors' employment: lawmaker
North Korean defectors settling in the South are facing hurdles in finding stable jobs due to weak health, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday, urging the government to expand health care support.According to the data compiled by Rep. Sim Jae-kwon of the Minjoo Party of Korea, around 40 percent of unemployed North Korean defectors living in the South said they left previous jobs due to health conditions. The survey was conducted in 2015 on 72 defectors.Rep. Sim Jae-kwon of the Minjoo Party of K
Sept. 22, 2016
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Email hacking makes up bulk of N. Korea's cyberattacks: lawmaker
Email hacking makes up the bulk of cyberattacks committed by North Korea, a ruling party lawmaker said Thursday, adding the South Korean government must improve its security awareness.According to the data compiled by Rep. Joo Kwang-Deok of the ruling Saenuri Party, 86 percent of the cyberattacks conducted by Pyongyang on the South Korean military in 2015 involved using emails.Last year, Seoul detected 74 cases of North Korean cyberattack using email, with 12 involving malicious codes. Rep. Joo
Sept. 22, 2016