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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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South Korea open to Indonesian proposal to cut KF-21 payments
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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] Time, profit pressures work against originality
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Why femicide and dating violence are growing issues in S. Korea
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DP urges Yoon to accept proposal on cash handouts, special counsel probe over Marine's death
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N. Korea won't be accepted as nuclear state: Russel
The United States and its partners in the nuclear talks with North Korea won't accept the communist nation as a nuclear state, a senior American diplomat said Thursday, as China reportedly increased its assessment of Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal.The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that China's top nuclear experts now estimate the North has already 20 warheads and is capable of producing enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by next year. American experts have recently estimate
April 24, 2015
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N. Korea creates special tour zone near Mt. Baekdu
North Korea said Thursday it has decided to establish a special tourist zone in a district near the peninsula's highest peak, a move seen as intended to earn hard currency.North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly on Wednesday promulgated a decree designating some areas of the Mubong workers' district near Mount Baekdu as the Mubong Special Zone for International Tour, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.The district, located in Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province, is well positio
April 23, 2015
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Activists bidding to cross DMZ want peace regime: organizer
Foreign activists' upcoming trek across the heavily fortified inter-Korean border could serve as the first step toward bringing lasting peace to the peninsula, the event's organizers said Thursday.About 30 female activists from around the world, including U.S. activist Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire from Ireland, plan to march from the North to the South across the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the two Koreas to mark International Women's Day for Peace and Disarm
April 23, 2015
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China warns of advance in N. Korea's nuclear capability: report
China's nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have as many as 20 nuclear warheads and can produce weapons-grade uranium to double its nuclear arsenal by next year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Chinese estimate of North Korea's nuclear capability, which was conveyed to U.S. nuclear scientists during a closed-door meeting in February, is above previous U.S. estimates of the North's nuclear arsenal. The report cited people who were briefed on the issue. North Ko
April 23, 2015
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N. Korea building military facility on border island: Seoul ministry
North Korea appears to be building a military facility on a tensely guarded Yellow Sea border island, Seoul's defense ministry said Thursday."We've spotted that construction is under way on the small island of Gal," defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said in a regular briefing, citing the North Korean island just above the Northern Limit Line."Considering the fact that the island is uninhabited and located near the border, we believe that chances are high for the North to be building a mili
April 23, 2015
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Kim Jong-un to visit Moscow: Russian envoy
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will visit Moscow in May for World War II anniversary celebrations, a Russian diplomat said Thursday.Kim has been invited to attend the May 9 celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory in the war. If he visits Russia, it will be his first foreign trip since taking power in late 2011.Citing a Russian news report that quoted a top presidential official, Ambassador Alexander Timonin said Russia is expecting Kim's visit."His participation was confir
April 23, 2015
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S. Korea eases bar for aid donors to N. Korea
South Korea Wednesday said it has eased donor eligibility requirements to facilitate private groups' humanitarian aid to North Korea amid lingering inter-Korean tension.Seoul's ministry on inter-Korean affairs unveiled the decision to open more doors for the participation of private organizations at a time when the government's assistance to the North has stalled following the 2010 deadly warship sinking."Easing of the standards will help more non-government agencies increase aid to North Korea
April 22, 2015
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Abe urged to apologize for sex slavery in Congress speech
A group of U.S. congressmen Tuesday urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for Japan's wartime sex slavery when he addresses Congress next week.Abe is scheduled to make a speech at a joint meeting of the House and Senate when he visits Washington next week for summit talks with President Barack Obama, an honor that would make him the first-ever Japanese prime minister to do so.Critics have said Abe is unworthy of the privilege because he has attempted to whitewash Japan's militari
April 22, 2015
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N. Korea's children suffer from severe malnutrition: report
One of six North Korean children under age 5 have been suffering from chronic malnutrition, a report showed Wednesday, raising alarm over food situations in the North.The portion of underweight children suffering from malnutrition accounted for 15.2 percent of all of North Korea's children under age 5 as of end-2013, according to the World Development Indicator 2015 released by the World Bank.The corresponding data for South Korea and Chinese children reached 0.6 percent and 3.4 percent, respect
April 22, 2015
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N.K. fails to learn lesson from Iran nuclear deal: Seiler
North Korea appears to have missed an important lesson from the breakthrough deal on Iran's nuclear program: that the United States is committed to negotiations even with long-time foes, the U.S. envoy for nuclear talks with Pyongyang said Tuesday.Sydney Seiler, special envoy for the six-party talks on the North's nuclear program, made the remark during a seminar in Washington, stressing that the Iran deal clearly demonstrated "the flexibility, the creativity, the commitment to negotiations" tha
April 22, 2015
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Seoul seeks to hold sports, cultural events with Pyongyang
South Korea said Tuesday it will seek to hold a variety of sports and cultural events with North Korea this year to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule.South Korea plans to propose the creation of an ad hoc committee to the North to prepare for joint events to commemorate the anniversary this year, the unification ministry said in a report to the National Assembly.As part of such plans, Seoul will seek to hold a soccer game and "ssireum," or traditional Kor
April 21, 2015
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N. Korea, China's Zhengzhou launch 1st tourist charter flight
North Korea and the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou have launched a tourist charter flight service this week, a report said Tuesday, making Zhengzhou the sixth Chinese city linked to the North via charter flights. The report is another sign that North Korea has approved more cross-border tours for Chinese nationals after lifting travel restrictions it imposed in March due to concerns over the Ebola virus. The charter flight service between Zhengzhou, the capital of China's central Henan provin
April 21, 2015
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S. Korea asks N. Korea to extend deadline in Gaeseong wage row
South Korea asked North Korea on Tuesday to extend a deadline by which Seoul firms should pay wages to their workers at a joint industrial complex in the North, a government official said.Three of the 124 South Korean firms have paid the March wages to North Korean workers at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North's border town of the same name amid a drawn-out wage row among the two Koreas.In February, the North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum monthly wage by 5.18 percent to $74
April 21, 2015
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Three firms follow N. Korea's wage hike in Kaesong
Three South Korean firms have paid more wages for North Korean workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex as Pyongyang demanded, a government source here said Monday.Their move runs counter to the South Korean government's firm stance not to accept the communist neighbor's unilateral decision to raise wages for its 53,000 workers in the North's border town.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to US$74 per month, starting in March, for those workers employed by
April 20, 2015
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N. Korea extends deadline for wage payment at joint venture
North Korea on Monday extended a deadline by which South Korean firms should pay wages to the North's workers at a joint industrial park in the North, a company official said, amid a months-long row over Pyongyang's unilateral bid to hike the wage.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to $74 per month starting in March for North Korean workers employed by the 124 South Korean small- and medium-sized firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border
April 20, 2015
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N. Korea 'expressed interest' in China-led regional bank: source
North Korea has expressed interest in the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, but failed to apply for membership, a diplomatic source said Monday. South Korea and 56 other economies became founding members of the AIIB, which is seen as a potential counterbalance to U.S.-led multilateral lenders such as the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank."To my knowledge, North Korea had expressed interest in joining the AIIB and looked into ways to take part in it through an unofficial c
April 20, 2015
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Seoul bizmen to visit joint industrial park amid wage row
A group of South Korean businessmen was to visit a joint industrial complex in North Korea on Monday amid the ongoing row over the North's unilateral bid to hike wages for North Korean workers there.The North unilaterally decided to raise the minimum wage by 5.18 percent to US$74 per month starting in March for North Korean workers hired by the 124 South Korean small- and medium-sized firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name.Monday is the deadline for S
April 20, 2015
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N.K. ordered to pay $330 mln to kidnapped pastor's family
A U.S. court has ordered North Korea to pay $330 million in compensation to the family of a late Korean-American pastor abducted by the North in 2000 while trying to help North Korean defectors in China.The Washington D.C. District Court delivered the verdict earlier this month, bringing the total amount of damages North Korea has to pay as results of a series of lawsuits in the U.S. so far to about $777 million, according to diplomatic sources.Rev. Kim Jong-shik was taken by a North Korean kidn
April 20, 2015
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Wage talks between 2 Koreas fails again
Inter-Korean talks to resolve an ongoing row over wage hikes for North Korean workers at a joint industrial park in the North ended in vain, with only one day remaining until the deadline, the Seoul government said Sunday."(The South's) quasi-governmental committee and its North Korean counterpart had a meeting on the minimum wage issue, as the North side accepted our proposal on Saturday," said the Ministry of Unification which handles North Korean affairs in the Seoul government. "They had not
April 19, 2015
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Kim Jong-un climbs highest mountain to honor late father
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has scaled the country's highest mountain to mark the anniversary of the day his late father was given the second-highest military rank, the North's state media reported Sunday.Kim climbed Mount Paekdu, symbolizing his ancestry, a day earlier with ranking military officials, the Korean Central News Agency said.Kim had previously ascended the mountain just after the three-year mourning period for his late father, Kim Jong-il, who died of a heart attack in December
April 19, 2015