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Yoon apologizes for first lady Dior bag scandal, calls push for special probe ‘political’
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Korea forecast to overtake Taiwan in chip production by 2032: report
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Can K-pop break free from ‘fandom’ model?
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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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Yoon apologizes for wife's 'unwise conduct'
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Park watches Russian documentary on life in North Korea
President Park Geun-hye watched a movie Thursday about life inside North Korea, a move the presidential office said showed Park's interest in North Korean children as South Korea marked Children's Day.Russian documentary maker Vitaly Mansky's latest work "Under the Sun" reveals that life in the isolated communist country is stage-managed by the North Korean authorities.The movie revolves around Zin-Mi, a schoolgirl who joined the Korean Children's Union on the birthday of former North Korean lea
May 5, 2016
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U.S. spy chief visits Seoul over North Korean issues
The top U.S. intelligence official visited South Korea this week and met with top Seoul officials to discuss North Korean issues, officials here said Thursday.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper arrived in Seoul on Wednesday as North Korea is set to hold its key party congress on Friday, amid lingering concern the country will conduct its fifth nuclear test."Clapper visited the Ministry of Defense building yesterday morning in an unofficial visit and met with Defense Minister Han Min
May 5, 2016
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N.K. leader's sister likely to be promoted at party congress: experts
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister is likely to be promoted to a minister-level post within the Workers' Party of Korea during the party's key congress slated for later this week, South Korean experts predicted Thursday.Kim Yo-jong, believed to be 29, is most likely to be named to a minister-level post within the WPK as the country plans to hold the first party congress in 36 years on Friday, they said.She is now known to serve as a deputy director within the WPK's Central Committe
May 5, 2016
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Military boost eyed amid N.K. threats
South Korea’s defense minister said Wednesday that boosting the country’s military strength is “inevitable” under the current situation, indicating that North Korea’s recent belligerence will intensify the arms race and tension on the peninsula.Seoul and Washington have been stepping up warnings against North Korea and its purported plan for another nuclear test. Last week, the allies wrapped up joint military drills, which also included preemptive strikes against Pyongyang’s leadership. Ministe
May 4, 2016
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N. Korea likely to collapse within 10-15 years: Chinese commentator
The North Korean regime is likely to collapse within 10 to 15 years because of worsening economic difficulties following tightened U.N. sanctions, according to a Chinese political commentator on Wednesday.Deng Yuwen, who was a former deputy editor of the Study Times, a paper controlled by China's ruling Communist Party, made the claim in his recent article posted on a Chinese military-related website named "Tiexue." North Korea has been slapped with tougher U.N. sanctions following its fourth nu
May 4, 2016
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Satellite imagery shows N. Korea actively pursuing SLBM development: 38 North
Recent satellite imagery shows North Korea is forging ahead with development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, the website 38 North said Tuesday.The imagery taken of the North's Shinpo Shipyard on April 29, six days after the North's latest SLBM test, shows that a submersible missile test stand barge has been moved from its normal position."This shift in location suggests that the SLBM program may be moving towards a more advanced stage of development where the need for a submersible te
May 4, 2016
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Sherman calls for discussions on N.K. contingencies
The United States, South Korea and other regional powers should launch discussions about how to handle potential contingencies in the North, such as a regime collapse or a coup, former U.S. Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday.Sherman, considered a key foreign policy brain for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, made the remark during a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, stressing that China's preferred status quo on the Korean Peni
May 4, 2016
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U.N. office chief calls for strong response to N.K. human rights abuses
The head of a U.N. office on North Korean human rights urged the international community Tuesday to take strong action against what she said amounts to crimes against humanity in the communist country. Signe Poulsen, representative of the Seoul office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, made the appeal in a forum here, saying the international community cannot overlook what it has already recognized as serious human rights abuses in the North. She was referring to a U.N. Commissi
May 3, 2016
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Accent hinders defectors’ job searches: survey
North Korean defectors say the biggest obstacle to finding a job in South Korea is their accent, according to a recent survey. In a survey of 1,400 defectors conducted last year by Kim Seok-hyang, a professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University, 26 percent said their accent was what made job seeking difficult. It was followed by lack of skills or experience, health, and age at 22.4 percent, 18.3 percent and 17.1 percent, respectively.The report was commissioned by the National Huma
May 3, 2016
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Seoul 'on alert' for N.K. nuke test
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo said Tuesday that the military is on alert based on the belief that the North might carry out another nuclear test to decorate its leader Kim Jong-un ahead of its ruling party congress later this week.“North Korea has been conducting nuclear tests to fulfill its various political agendas,” Han told the parliamentary defense committee, adding that the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site appears ready to carry out the nuclear test on cue. There has been s
May 3, 2016
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Korea says message from its summit with Iran sent clear warning to N.K.
The "shared understanding" between South Korea and Iran in support of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula sent a strong warning to North Korea, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, urging Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions.In a press conference after his summit with President Park Geun-hye in Tehran on Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Islamic republic is "in principle opposed to any nuclear development." His remarks were seen as indicating Tehran's stance against Pyongya
May 3, 2016
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N. Korea raises surveillance ahead of party congress: source
North Korea has beefed up its surveillance near Pyongyang and along its border with China ahead of its key party congress slated for late this week, a source familiar with North Korean affairs said Tuesday.On Monday, North Korea announced a special surveillance week to monitor people in the capital city and border areas as the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) plans to hold the first party congress in more than 30 years on Friday, according to the source.It said that the North provided special compe
May 3, 2016
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N.K. says South Korea proposed football matches between workers in Aug.
North Korea said Tuesday that a South Korean civic group has proposed holding friendly football matches between workers from the two Koreas in Seoul in August to promote cross-border civilian exchanges.The South Korean Committee for the Joint Implementation of the June 15 Summit Declaration has offered to hold the games in Seoul on Aug. 15, the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule, according to the North's main propaganda website Uriminzokkiri.North Korea said tha
May 3, 2016
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Seoul warns of additional N. Korean nuclear test ahead of party congress
North Korea could opt to carry out another nuclear test ahead of the country's rare ruling party congress set for later this week as it has completed all preparations at its Punggye-ri test site, the defense ministry said Tuesday.North Korea appears to be "plotting further strategic provocations including a nuclear test, the test-firing of a Musudan intermediate range missile and another submarine-launched ballistic missile launch," the Ministry of National Defense said in a parliamentary report
May 3, 2016
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Mass defection of N.K. restaurant workers shows China's frustration with Pyongyang: U.S. envoy
The recent mass defection of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant in China shows Beijing considers relations with South Korea important and is increasingly frustrated with the North, the U.S. human rights envoy on the North said Monday.Amb. Robert King, special envoy for North Korean human rights, made the remark during a Center for Strategic and International Studies discussion, calling for continued pressure on Beijing to recognize refugees fleeing from hunger and oppression in the North."
May 3, 2016
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N.K. set to complete 70-day loyalty drive ahead of party congress
North Korea was set to complete the 70-day campaign designed to press its people to work harder on Monday as it is preparing to hold the first party congress in more than 30 years later this week.In late February, the North kicked off the "70-day campaign of loyalty," under which the North's regime has been mobilizing its people to complete construction and other projects ahead of the party event."A set of construction works have been under way with the aim to complete them by May 2, when the 70
May 2, 2016
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8 out of 10 Korean-Americans express need for Korean unification: poll
More than eight out of 10 Koreans living in the United States expressed a need for the unification of the divided Korean Peninsula, a survey showed Monday.According to a poll by the Overseas Koreans Foundation carried out on 676 Korean-Americans, 81.5 percent of them expressed the need for Korean unification, while 15.8 percent said unification is not necessary. Only 2.7 percent said they are not interested in reunification.The foundation is a South Korean government agency tasked with supportin
May 2, 2016
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Low-level activity continues at N. Korea's nuclear test site: 38 North
The latest commercial satellite imagery shows continued low-level activity at North Korea's nuclear test site, a U.S. website monitoring the communist nation said Sunday, amid concern Pyongyang could conduct its fifth nuclear test in the coming days.Based on the April 28 imagery of the North's Punggye-ri test site, however, it is not possible to determine whether these activities are related to continued maintenance or reflect that Pyongyang has completed test preparations and a detonation is im
May 2, 2016
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N. Korean defectors charged with drug smuggling
A group of more than 20 North Korean defectors and ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been indicted here on charges of smuggling methamphetamine believed to be produced in the North into South Korea for sale or personal consumption, South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday, noting they have found circumstantial evidence of North Korean residents' involvement in the crime.The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said it has indicted a total of 23 suspects, including North Korean defectors liv
May 1, 2016
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Korean-Chinese supporter of Pyongyang defectors found dead
An ethnic Korean clergyman with Chinese nationality has been found dead in a northeastern Chinese town close to the border with North Korea, a North Korea watcher said on Sunday, raising suspicions that the North could possibly be involved in his death.The body of the priest, identified by his surname Han and known for his activities in support of North Korean defectors, was found Saturday afternoon, the watcher said, speculating that he may have been murdered.Chinese police have immediately lau
May 1, 2016