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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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Jennie, Stray Kids's Met Gala attendance puts them on 'digital guillotine' blacklist
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT new powers to see, hear
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[KH Explains] Naver’s Line dilemma: Lose global footing for cash?
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[Herald Interview] Carbon breakthrough in Korea: Making diamonds at atmospheric pressure
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S. Korea to inject $70m into AI-powered public education
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N. Korea' 'free' medical service in deplorable state: sources
North Korea's "free" medical service has degenerated into a deplorable state with patients compelled to pay for treatment and to even procure drugs on their own, sources familiar with the isolationist country claimed Sunday.According to multiple sources that maintain clandestine ties with ordinary North Koreans, the North medical service sector has been hit hard by poor economic conditions and shortages of medicine."It is an open secret that people wanting treatment must pay hospitals and clinic
March 13, 2016
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N. Korea to maintain simultaneous development of economy, nukes: books
North Korea is intent on sticking with its policy of simultaneously developing its economy and nuclear weapons, a series of promotional books showed Sunday.Yonhap News Agency obtained the 10-volume series on North Korean government policies, history and military, among other issues, through Cheong Seong-chang, senior researcher at Seoul's Sejong Institute. The series was published last July.Each volume is 100 pages long and in a question-and-answer format.The volume on the North Korean military
March 13, 2016
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N.K. warns of preemptive strikes against the South
North Korea said Saturday its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and "liberate'' the South if it sees signs that American and South Korean troops involved in annual joint military drills are attempting to invade the North.The declaration from General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army on state media is the latest outburst over the drills that the U.S. and South Korea say are defensive and routine. At the start of the drills on Monday, the North warned of an indiscriminate "pre-empt
March 12, 2016
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London conference puts spotlight on N. Korea rights abuses
LONDON (AFP) -- The U.N. commissioner who investigated human rights in North Korea on Friday recommended establishing a panel of experts to study how crimes against humanity in the reclusive state can be punished."What do you do if we bring home powerful evidence of crimes against humanity -- and a veto" from one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council "prevents you taking it further? How can you deal with that problem?" said Michael Kirby at a conference in London o
March 12, 2016
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China vows specific plans for peace treaty, denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
BEIJING (Yonhap) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has vowed to put forward specific plans in Beijing's proposal for pursuing peace treaty talks with North Korea in tandem with denuclearization negotiations. Wang made the remarks during a press conference on Friday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, according to a transcript of Wang's remarks posted on the Chinese foreign ministry's website. Wang said the "parallel track" approach of pursuing both a peace treaty
March 12, 2016
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North Korea warns of preemptive strikes against the South
North Korea said Saturday its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and "liberate'' the South if it sees signs that American and South Korean troops involved in annual joint military drills are attempting to invade the North.The declaration from General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army on state media is the latest outburst over the drills that the U.S. and South Korea say are defensive and routine. At the start of the drills on Monday, the North warned of an indiscriminate "pre-empt
March 12, 2016
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S. Korea, U.S. warn N. Korea will face 'stronger, grave' response in case of provocations
South Korea and the United States warned Friday that North Korea will face a "stronger and graver" response if it makes yet additional provocations in defiance of the international community.Seoul's new nuclear envoy, Kim Hong-kyun, issued the warning after holding talks with his U.S. counterpart, Amb. Sung Kim, amid growing nuclear and missile threats from the communist nation."We agreed to focus on putting strong pressure on North Korea so as to create an environment where the North cannot hel
March 12, 2016
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N.K. leader orders more nuke tests
In defiance of international resolutions, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has instructed his aides to conduct additional rounds of atomic tests to beef up the country’s nuclear capabilities, state media said Friday, prompting Seoul’s stringent censures. Apparently overseeing a ballistic missile launch Thursday, Kim stressed the need to continue “nuclear explosion experiments necessary to estimate the destructive power of newly built bombs and to increase nuclear strike capabilities,” the North’s
March 11, 2016
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Park's approval rating moves up amid tension with North Korea
President Park Geun-hye's job approval rating moved up amid tension on the Korean Peninsula over North Korea's provocations, a local poll showed Friday.A poll released by Gallup Korea showed 42 percent approved of the job Park is doing, up 3 percentage point from a week earlier.It also found that those who disapproved of Park's job performance came to 45 percent, down 4 percentage points from the previous week.This week's poll came as South Korea accused North Korea of stealing information from
March 11, 2016
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South Korea sends letter to UNSC in response to N.K. missile launch
South Korea has sent a letter to a sanctions panel under the U.N. Security Council to call for an "appropriate response" to North Korea's launch of two ballistic missiles earlier this week, a diplomatic source said Friday."Our government's letter was sent to the UNSC sanctions on Thursday (New York time)," a government source said on the condition of anonymity.The communist state fired the missiles into the East Sea on Thursday morning in an apparent protest against the ongoing military drills b
March 11, 2016
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U.N. chief urges North Korea to honor U.N. resolutions after missile firings
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges North Korea to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and halt destabilizing acts, his spokesman said Thursday, after Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles in its latest provocation.The North fired the missiles early Thursday morning (Seoul time), the latest in a series of provocative statements and acts the North has engaged in as South Korea and the U.S. have been conducting annual joint military exercises Pyongyang has long branded as a rehea
March 11, 2016
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U.S. commander: North Korea can 'range continental U.S.' with ICBM
North Korea can "range the continental United States" with an intercontinental ballistic missile and it would be prudent to assume Pyongyang can also miniaturize a nuclear warhead to put on an ICBM, the U.S. northern commander said Thursday."I assess that they have the ability to put an ICBM in space and range the continental United States and Canada," U.S. Northern Command Commander Adm. William Gortney said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Asked if the range will then clearly
March 11, 2016
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N.K. leader orders more nuke tests, readiness for nuclear attacks
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his officials to get ready to carry out nuclear attacks and conduct more nuclear tests, the North's state media said Friday, raising tensions on the divided peninsula.The North's leader stressed the need to further develop nuclear weapons and diversify the means for delivering nuke warheads so as to "make nuclear strikes at the enemies from anywhere on the ground, in the air, at sea and underwater," the North's Korean Central News Agency said."He gave
March 11, 2016
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Inter-Korean ties barely hang by a thread
Relations between the two Koreas appear to be hanging by a thread as Pyongyang declared plans to abolish all bilateral exchange projects, confiscate all South Korean assets left in the North and stage military actions. The announcement was made Thursday by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in charge of cross-border affairs, which took issue with the South’s unilateral pullout from a joint factory park in the North Korean border city of Gaeseong last month and the hal
March 10, 2016
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North Korea unlikely to have thermonuclear arms: U.K. institute
North Korea’s claim to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit a ballistic missile is likely to be false, a London-based defense information provider said Wednesday.The communist country had revealed a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a silver sphere -- believed to be the device in question -- in front of the state’s KH-08 long-range missile. Kim directly stated that his engineers had succeeded in miniaturizing the nuclear warheads. (Yonhap)But Karl Dewey, a senior analyst at IHS Jan
March 10, 2016
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N. Korea to liquidate Southern assets
North Korea on Thursday announced it would nullify all inter-Korea relations and dispose of all assets left behind by South Korean companies, dealing yet another blow to already precarious inter-Korea relations.The announcement came two days after Seoul declared a set of unilateral sanctions on the communist country, after the U.N. passed what officials have called the strongest sanctions in decades last week. The joint inter-Korean factory complex in Gaeseong, North Korea is seen in this photo
March 10, 2016
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Hong Kong bans N. Korean freighter under U.N. sanctions
Hong Kong has banned a North Korean freighter, which is blacklisted by new U.N. sanctions over the North's latest nuclear test and rocket launch, from berthing at its port, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. The North Korean freighter Gold Star 3 arrived at the Hong Kong port on Wednesday to get fuel and supplies for its crew, but Hong Kong authorities did not allow the ship to dock at the port, the source said on the condition of anonymity. The ship is among 31 vessels operate
March 10, 2016
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Seoul reviewing whether to OK TB medication aid to Pyongyang
South Korea said Thursday it is reviewing whether to approve a charity group's request to send tuberculosis medication to North Korea amid its latest move to slap tighter sanctions on the North.The EugeneBell Foundation Korea, the South Korean unit of the EugeneBell Foundation, has requested the Unification Ministry to approve its plan to ship medication to the impoverished nation. It said lives of some 1,500 patients in North Korea are at risk due to a lack of medical aid.On Tuesday, Seoul unve
March 10, 2016
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Pyongyang slams Seoul's approval of N. Korea human rights bill
North Korea on Thursday denounced the human rights bill passed by South Korea's parliament, claiming that it will further aggravate inter-Korean relations.Calling the bill an "unprecedentedly confrontational evil law," North Korea's main newspaper the Rodong Sinmun claimed the bill will further fuel distrust and confrontation between the two Koreas and also annihilate any bit of chance to improve inter-Korean relations.On March 2, South Korea's National Assembly approved the bill on North Korean
March 10, 2016
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N. Korea unlikely to have thermonuclear weapon: UK institute
North Korea’s claim to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit a ballistic missile is likely to be false, a London-based defense information provider said Wednesday.The communist country had revealed a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a silver sphere -- believed to be the device in question -- in front of the state’s KH-08 long-range missile. Kim had directly stated that his engineers succeeded in miniaturizing the nuclear warheads.But Karl Dewey, a senior analyst at IHS Jane’s said
March 10, 2016