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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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N. Korean leader names his confidant as military's top
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has named his confidant Hwang Pyong-so as the military's top political officer, the country's state news agency said Friday, the latest in a series of reshuffles that indicated the dwindling power of Hwang's predecessor.Hwang's appointment as the director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army was confirmed in a speech he delivered at a banquet in Pyongyang on Thursday marking May Day, according to the Korean Central News Agency.The move came
May 2, 2014
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China's border city to set up market for N. Korean fine art
The Chinese border city of Yanji has been planning to launch an open market trading North Korean fine art including paintings this year, according to a local newspaper on Thursday. The move comes as many Chinese collectors frequently visit the city to buy North Korean artworks, the Yanbian Daily newspaper reported, citing an art association affiliated with the Yanbian prefecture. Yanji is a capital city of the Korean autonomous prefecture located along the Tumen River bordering North Korea. Give
May 1, 2014
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N. Korea increases car, liquor imports from Hong Kong in 2013: report
North Korea increased imports of vehicles and alcoholic beverages from Hong Kong in 2013, despite an overall drop in bilateral trade, a South Korean report showed Thursday.The trade representative office for Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency in Hong Kong said Pyongyang spent $4.36 million to buy vehicles, up 27.5 percent from the year before, a large number of them with over 3-liter engine and seating capacity for more than 10 people.Cars were the second-largest single product imported by
May 1, 2014
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North Korea says nuke test has no ‘statute of limitations’
North Korea on Tuesday lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama’s warning against its fourth nuclear test during his tour of Asia last week, vowing to continue its experiment that has no “statute of limitations.” Concerns have been growing since Pyongyang threatened a “new form” of underground blast on March 30 in protest against the U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of its firing of midrange ballistic missiles.In Seoul on Friday, Obama warned that the communist state will face further press
April 30, 2014
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N. Korean leader's aunt appears again in documentary film
The aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appeared in a rerun of a documentary film, a move that could confuse outside analysts on whether she was ousted from power.The North's state television aired the documentary on Tuesday that showed Kim Kyong-hui visiting a soccer stadium along with her nephew Kim Jong-un.The documentary was first aired on Feb. 11, and North Korea did not edit out scenes of Kim Kyong-hui on Tuesday when it aired a rerun of the film.On April 20, the North's television
April 30, 2014
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U.S. says N. Korea still bound by NPT rules
A senior U.S. government official said Tuesday North Korea is still obliged to follow rules under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty despite its withdrawal from the treaty in 2003.Thomas Countryman, assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, said NPT members will discuss the North Korea problem during the Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferations Treaty Review Conference underway in New York."The NPT requirements remain binding upo
April 30, 2014
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N. Korea conducts live-fire drills
North Korea fired some 50 coastal artillery shells near the Northern Limit Line, a de facto inter-Korean sea border, during live-fire drills on Tuesday, further ratcheting up tension at a time when South Korea is grieving over a deadly ferry disaster two weeks ago.None of the shells fell south of the NLL, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.The 10-minute drills began at 2 p.m., some five hours after the North’s southwestern frontline command sent a fax notification to the South’s Second Fleet of
April 29, 2014
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Seoul to host U.N. office for N.K. rights
South Korea is likely to host a field office the United Nations is seeking to open as part of its increasing efforts to bring the North Korean leadership to justice for human rights violations, a government source said Tuesday.After a year of investigation, the U.N.’s commission of inquiry published a report earlier this year, accusing North Korea of systemic, widespread and gross human rights violations including torture, hunger or imprisonment for political reasons.In March, the report was sub
April 29, 2014
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N.K. warns war would obliterate South Korea
North Korea said Tuesday South Korea would be reduced to ashes if a war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, in the latest verbal attack against President Park Geun-hye for her unification initiative.Park has called for, among other things, the bolstering of cross-border exchanges as a first step toward building trust between the sides to lay the groundwork for unification of the two Koreas.She unveiled the proposal, called the Dresden Declaration, during her trip to the former East German city of
April 29, 2014
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N. Korea conducts live-fire drills in West Sea
The North Korean military on Tuesday fired artillery rockets into waters near the Northern Limit Line, a de facto inter-Korean sea border, during its live-fire drills, further ratcheting up tensions on the peninsula.The drills came some five hours after the North sent a fax notification to Seoul of the plan to stage the drills near its islands of Wollaedo and Jangjaedo, near South Korea’s frontline islands.The drills are the latest in a recent series of saber-rattling moves by Pyongyang includi
April 29, 2014
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[Newsmaker] Hwang Pyong-so new in N. Korean power circle
Over the last few weeks, a notable change was spotted within the core of the reclusive North Korean ruling elite: Hwang Pyong-so, formerly the first vice director of the ruling party’s organization guidance department, was elevated to the rank of four-star general and then to the rarefied, coveted rank of vice marshal. The decision was made Saturday by the powerful National Defense Commission and the Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission, the official Korean Central News Agency announced
April 28, 2014
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[Herald Interview] ‘For Xi, summit with N. Korean leader may be diplomatic card’
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may be using the possibility of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a diplomatic card to pressure the isolated, impoverished neighbor to behave, a U.S. scholar said.In a recent interview with The Korea Herald, Bonnie Glaser, senior advisor for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also noted that despite Pyongyang’s aberrant behavior, Beijing would continue to prioritize maintaining stability in the North.“I think Xi Jinping recognizes
April 28, 2014
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Seoul slams North Korea for sexist swipe at President Park
South Korea denounced North Korea on Monday for a sexist swipe at President Park Geun-hye, in the latest verbal tit-for-tat between the rival Koreas amid lingering tensions over Pyongyang’s possible nuclear test.Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eui-do said the North used vulgar expletives toward Park, calling the North’s latest slander immoral. Kim’s comments came a day after North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea called her “a wicked sycophant and traitor, a dirty com
April 28, 2014
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Kim paid ‘huge attention to detail’ for wax figure of father
BEIJING (Yonhap) ― North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un paid “huge attention to detail” in the making of a wax figure of his late father by Chinese artists, checking details of the sculpture to make it perfectly duplicate his father’s features, China’s state media reported Monday. The wax figure of Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, who died on Dec. 17, 2011, has been on display at the North’s International Friendship Exhibition Center, an ostentatious palace museum at Mt. Myohyang, since July last ye
April 28, 2014
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Opposition proposes new N.K. rights bill
South Korea’s main opposition party proposed a bill Monday calling for the promotion of civil and political rights in North Korea in addition to the right to life.The proposal marks a shift from the previous stance of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, which has opposed legislation addressing human rights abuses in the North out of concern it could anger Pyongyang and worsen ties between the two Koreas.“Until now, the opposition party has put the North Korean people’s right to life first,
April 28, 2014
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N.K. detains American tourist
PYONGYANG (AP) ― North Korea has detained a 24-year-old American man for improper behavior while he was being processed to enter the country as a tourist, state media reported Saturday.The official Korean Central News Agency identified the man as Miller Matthew Todd ― possibly putting his surname first ― and said he entered the country on April 10 with a tourist visa, but tore it up and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. The brief report said he chose the North “as a shelter.’’It said he was
April 27, 2014
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N.K. leader attends KPA meeting
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has chaired a key meeting of a top military commission to decide on organizational matters, the country’s state media said Sunday. At the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim and the North’s top policymakers “discussed issues arising in further developing the Korean People’s Army into the powerful Paektusan revolutionary army faithful to the party, the leader, the country and its people,” according to the Korean C
April 27, 2014
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N. Korea's Kim leads key military meet, artillery drill
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has carried out a rash of visits to military installations and chaired a meeting of senior figures in the armed forces, state media said Sunday, amid global unease over a possible nuclear test.The announcement by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) comes the day after U.S. President Barack Obama lambasted the North as a "pariah" and said any atomic blast would lead to "more isolation".After a series of visits to observe army drills over the last few days, Kim pr
April 27, 2014
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New pictures confirm North Korea nuclear activity
A North Korean nuclear test within days "cannot be ruled out" analysts said Saturday, after new satellite imagery showed heightened activity at the test site.The report by the Institute for Science and International Security chimes with other findings and suggests Pyongyang is moving towards an underground detonation.Pictures taken on Friday -- the first day of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to neighbouring South Korea -- show an increase in movement near one entrance to a tunnel."The image
April 26, 2014
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N. Korea says it's detaining another American man
North Korea has detained a 24-year-old American man for improper behavior while he was being processed to enter the country as a tourist, state media reported Saturday.The official Korean Central News Agency identified the man as Miller Matthew Todd _ possibly putting his surname first _ and said he entered the country on April 10 with a tourist visa, but tore it up and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. The brief report said he chose the North “as a shelter.”It said he was detained for “gro
April 26, 2014