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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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[KH Explains] Why Korea's so tough on short selling
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Actors involved in past controversies return first via streaming service originals
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[Photo News] Seoul seeks 'best sleeper'
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S. Korea, U.S. to resume talks soon on revision of nuclear accord
SEOUL -- South Korea and the United States are poised to resume sensitive negotiations soon aimed at revising a bilateral civilian nuclear accord, a diplomatic source said Monday, as Seoul seeks to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel. The allies are likely to reopen the talks as early as this week in Washington, when South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se visits there for a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the source said on the condition of anonymi
April 1, 2013
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N.K. leader may attack to save face: U.S. lawmaker
With North Korea churning out military threats, a key concern is that its young leader Kim Jong-un may reach a point of no return in provocative steps, a U.S. congressman said Sunday.Rep. Peter King (R-NY), former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said North Korea's statements may not be an "empty threat.""Kim Jong-un is trying to establish himself. He's trying to be the tough guy. He is 28, 29 years old, and he keeps going further and further out, and I don't know if he can get
April 1, 2013
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N. Korea offered Iran anti-tank guerrilla tactic in 1982: declassified dossier
(Yonhap) -- North Korea trained Iranian soldiers to blow up Iraqi tanks in 1982 with a motorcycle carrying a liquefied natural gas (LPG) cylinder, Seoul's declassified diplomatic documents showed Sunday. Military cooperation between North Korea and Iran started after a bitter eight-year war broke out in 1980 when Iraq invaded Iran, but the documents revealed details on how Pyongyang offered Tehran lethal assistance and equipment at the time. The documents, written by the South Korean embassy
March 31, 2013
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Seoul, Tokyo at odds over Army deserter who defected to Pyongyang: declassified dossier
(Yonhap) -- A South Korean Army deserter who smuggled himself into Japan in 1969 with the aim of defecting to North Korea sparked a diplomatic row between Seoul and Tokyo over his repatriation, declassified diplomatic documents showed Sunday. Army Pfc. Chung Hoon-sang, then 26 years old, decamped from active service in South Korea and stowed away on a cargo ship to the port of Kobe on Aug. 7, 1969, but was caught by Japanese authorities. During an interrogation, Chung appealed to the Japanes
March 31, 2013
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N. Korea threatens to close Gaeseong industrial complex
North Korea said Saturday that it would close the inter-Korean industrial complex in its border city of Gaeseong, should its “dignity” be undermined, and declared that the Korean Peninsula has entered a “state of war.”The North’s spokesperson for the Gaeseong complex said Seoul was “seriously insulting our dignity” by claiming Pyongyang was allowing the complex to run despite escalated tensions because it was a source of foreign currency.The statement carried by the official Korean Central News
March 31, 2013
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S. Korean Marines to hold drills with U.S. forces next month
SEOUL -- South Korea's Marine Corps announced Sunday they will hold multiple combined exercises with U.S. marines next month. The South Korean marines said they will stage four exercises together with the U.S. forces in April to hone their capabilities in carrying out landing and tactical operations and in maneuvering their mechanized units. South Korean officials also said U.S. marines training in the country will be invited to take part in tactical discussions at front-line South Korean un
March 31, 2013
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Foreign ministry releases once-confidential diplomatic documents
The foreign ministry said Sunday that it has released a total of 1,490 volumes of diplomatic documents, or about 220,000 pages, after more than 30 years of being classified.The diplomatic dossiers released this year include those on a 1982 proposal by former president Chun Doo-hwan for reunification with North Korea and South Korea's review of a proposal to take part in a multi-national force in Lebanon, the ministry said in a statement.The documents are available for viewing and printing at the
March 31, 2013
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Amid military tensions, forum to highlight N. Korea's human rights abuses
While military tensions on the Korean Peninsula show no signs of abating, international efforts continue to address North Korea's abysmal human rights situation.The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, said Friday it would hold a forum next week aimed at raising public awareness on the communist nation's human rights abuses.With the theme of "Human Rights in Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Is progress possible?" the session will take place on
March 30, 2013
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N. Korea says inter-Korean relations enter into war phase
North Korea said Saturday that inter-Korean relations have entered into a state of war and all cross-border issues will be dealt with in a wartime manner, the latest in a near-daily series of strident threats against the Southin recent weeks.The warning came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un put strategic rocket units on standby, threatening to strike targets in South Korea, the U.S. mainland, and its military bases in Hawaii and Guam, in anger after nuclear-capable U.S. B-2 stealth bo
March 30, 2013
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N. Korea holds massive rally amid tensions
North Korea held a massive rally in Pyongyang as its leader Kim Jong-un put the country's rocket forces on standby for a possible strike against the United States and its military targets, state media said Friday.It was the first rally since North Korea put its missile and artillery units into a combat ready posture in response to what it claims is a nuclear threat from the U.S.Mun Kyong-duk, a senior official in Pyongyang, renewed his country's latest threat to strike the U.S. and its military
March 29, 2013
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N.K. toughens rhetoricdirected at Park
North Korea has steadily raised the level of attacks directed at South Korean President Park Geun-hye as the country ratchets up tension following its third nuclear test, local observers said Friday.Observers in Seoul said the communist country is using quasi-government organizations like the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland to criticize the chief executive who took office on Feb. 25.The secretariat for the committee in charge of carrying out talks with the South issued
March 29, 2013
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N.K. readies missile forces after B-2 bomber flights
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered his missile forces to be on standby Friday in protest against the United States’ use of nuclear-capable stealth bombers during its joint military drills with South Korea. The communist ruler convened a rare “urgent operation meeting” at the Supreme Command slightly past midnight to discuss the strategic rocket unit’s mission of a firepower strike, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. He signed a plan on technical preparations of missiles,
March 29, 2013
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N. Korea raises level of attacks directed at S. Korean president
North Korea has steadily raised the level of attacks directed at South Korean President Park Geun-hye as the country ratchets up tension following its third nuclear test, local observers said Friday.Observers in Seoul said the communist country is using quasi-government organizations like the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland to criticize the chief executive who took office on Feb. 25.The secretariat for the committee in charge of carrying out talks with the South issued
March 29, 2013
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N. Korean missile launch sites show increased activities: sources
North Korea's missile sites have recently shown increased activities in the wake of the communist nation's threat to strike South Korea and the United States in response to their ongoing military drill involving nuclear-capable bombers, military sources in Seoul said Friday.The latest move comes after the North Korean military on Tuesday put its strategic rocket units on the highest level of combat readiness, threatening to strike targets in South Korea as well as U.S. bases in Hawaii and Guam.F
March 29, 2013
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Hagel: US B-2s not intended to provoke North Korea
The unprecedented U.S. decision to send nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to drop dummy munitions during military drills with South Korea this week was part of normal exercises and not intended to provoke a reaction from North Korea, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.Hagel acknowledged, however, that North Korea's belligerent tones and actions in recent weeks have ratcheted up the danger in the region, “and we have to understand that reality.”Speaking to Pentagon reporters, both Hage
March 29, 2013
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N.K. leader orders rocket forces to be on standby to strike U.S. and S. Korean targets
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the country's strategic rocket forces to be placed on standby to strike U.S. and South Korean targets, state media reported Friday, after two B-2 stealth bombers conducted first-ever operational drills over the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, in an English dispatch, "(Kim) convened an urgent operation meeting on the Korean People's Army's Strategic Rocket Force's performance of duty for firepower strike at the Supreme Command
March 29, 2013
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N. Korea calls on countries to clarify views on 'nuke standoff'
North Korea on Thursday called on countries involved in the "nuclear standoff" on the Korean Peninsula to clarify their views on what future actions should be taken that can either lead to war or peace. In an article carried by the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, Pyongyang said the world at large should not underestimate the dangers of nuclear war. "DPRK-U.S. nuclear war goes beyond the two countries," it stressed. The paper monitored in Seoul then claime
March 28, 2013
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N. Korea leader attends KPA 'information workers' meeting
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a military 'information workers' meeting on Thursday, in a move to highlight the importance the country places on the ideological indoctrination of its soldiers. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the meeting was attended by workers belonging to all branches of the Korean People's Army (KPA), including its rocket force and officers of various military schools. The workers have similar roles to political commissars found in many communist count
March 28, 2013
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N.K. cutoff of hotline doesn’t hamper work at Gaeseong
Border crossings by South Koreans working at the Gaeseong industrial complex in North Korea proceeded without incident on Thursday amid growing concern over their safety following Pyongyang’s severance of a military hotline on the previous day.In the morning, three groups of South Koreans crossed the land border separately through the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine office in Paju, north of Seoul, Seoul officials said.They received entry approval by phone from a North Korean complex manageme
March 28, 2013
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Foreign minister calls on Japan to ‘start off on the right foot’
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se urged Japan on Thursday to “start off on the right foot”to repair bilateral ties ― a thinly veiled swipe at Tokyo’s approval of textbooks laying claim to the South Korean islets of Dokdo. Yun made the remarks a day after South Korea lodged a strong protest with Japan over the approval of high school textbooks that “still contain Japan’s unjustifiable claims to Dokdo.” “As for bilateral relations with Japan, it is always important for the two sides to start off on th
March 28, 2013