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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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[KH Explains] Why Korea's so tough on short selling
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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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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Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S. to discuss N. Korea
The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States will hold phone talks this weekend to discuss a range of issues, including North Korea, Seoul officials said Friday.Other topics of the scheduled phone talks between South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday will include a planned visit to Washington by South Korean President Park Geun-hye in May, said the foreign ministry officials.The phone conversation will be the first between the top d
March 15, 2013
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N. Korea likely to provoke South this year: think tank
North Korea is likely to launch a provocative attack on South Korea this year, a top analyst said Thursday at the launch of his think tank's annual report on the world's military capabilities.The International Institute for Strategic Studies said North Korea's "military first" doctrine remained clearly intact under youthful leader Kim Jong-Un.Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the London-based IISS's non-proliferation and disarmament program, said world powers were increasingly concerned about the th
March 15, 2013
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U.S. pins hopes on signs of change in China's N.K. policy
Expectations of a significant change in China's approach toward North Korea are growing among U.S. officials and experts, especially with the election of Beijing's new president, Xi Jinping. U.S. President Barack Obama openly said China is "recalculating" its policy on the troublesome communist neighbor."You're starting to see them recalculate and say, 'You know what? this is starting to get out of hand," Obama said in an interview with ABC News earlier this week."And, so, we may slowly be in a
March 15, 2013
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N.K. leader oversees live-ammo drills against S. Korean islands
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reported on Thursday to have directed live-ammunition drills targeting South Korea’s frontline islands, further escalating tension around the Northern Limit Line, a de facto maritime border.Following a recent series of military inspections, Kim oversaw the drills on Wednesday apparently in protest against the ongoing South Korea-U.S. Key Resolve exercise, which the North denounced as a “rehearsal for a nuclear incursion.”“Leader Kim Jong-un directed live-ammo
March 14, 2013
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N.K. sharply ups jet fighter activity
North Korea’s air force has sharply increased jet fighter training flights in the past few days, with the number of sorties reaching as many as 700 on the day South Korea and the United States launched a joint war game earlier this week, a military source in Seoul said Wednesday. The North’s move is seen as part of efforts to beef up combat readiness and to closely monitor joint drills in the South that began on Monday. The drill, called Key Resolve, involves about 10,000 Korean troops and 3,000
March 13, 2013
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N.K. blasts Park’s ‘venomous skirt swish’
The body that controls North Korea’s military has attacked South Korea’s new president, Park Geun-hye, referring to the “venomous swish” of her skirt.An unidentified spokesman for the National Defense Commission’s Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces also repeated North Korean vows from recent days of a “merciless retaliation” against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. The statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency Wednesday reiterated another North Korean promise to no longer
March 13, 2013
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N.K. says South Korea “not qualified” to discuss armistice
North Korea on Wednesday dismissed South Korea’s claim that the armistice agreement remains valid, arguing that the South is not qualified to discuss the matter.“The (South Korean) puppets that worked as a tool for America and drove the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war should not be shamelessly discussing the current problem,” the Rodong Sinmun, the daily of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said. “Furthermore, the South Korean puppets are not even the directly involved party in the armisti
March 13, 2013
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N. Korea fielding mobile ICBM: U.S. intelligence chief
North Korea seems to have taken "initial steps" to deploy mobile long-range missiles, the head of the U.S. intelligence community said Tuesday, as the unpredictable communist nation churns out military threats."Last April it displayed what appears to be a rogue mobile intercontinental ballistic missile," James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, said at a Senate hearing on national security challenges. "We believe North Korea has already taken initial steps towards fielding this system,
March 13, 2013
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History shows N. K.'s pattern: wait, then attack
Recent Korean history reveals a sobering possibility: It may only be a matter of time before North Korea launches a sudden, deadly attack on the South. And perhaps more unsettling, Seoul has vowed that this time, it will respond with an even stronger blow.Humiliated by past attacks, South Korea has promised _ as recently as Tuesday _ to hit back hard at the next assault from the North, opening up the prospect that a skirmish could turn into a wider war.Lost in the headline-making North Korean bl
March 12, 2013
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North blasts S. Korea-U.S. drills; no signs of imminent provocation
Tension continued to escalate on Tuesday as North Korea intensified threats against South Korea and the U.S. warning of “catastrophic consequences.”The regime has cut off an emergency hotline with the South and declared the end of nonaggression pacts, in protest of joint military drills of the two allies.Pyongyang’s official media carried a statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, blasting Seoul and Washington for staging “the most dangerous drills for a nuc
March 12, 2013
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U.S. slaps sanctions on N.K. bank, officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on North Korea’s primary foreign exchange bank and four senior officials, upping the pressure on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program.The new U.S. measures came as South Korea and the United States launched joint drills involving thousands of troops, defying the North’s apocalyptic threat to repudiate the 60-year-old Korean War armistice in retaliation.The start of the two-week “Key Resolve” exercise fuels already escalating te
March 12, 2013
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U.N. monitor accuses N.K. of crimes against humanity
GENEVA (AFP) ― A U.N. human rights monitor on Monday accused North Korea of committing a string of crimes against humanity, laying out a litany of abuses before the world body’s top rights forum.“The violations in the DPRK have reached a critical mass,” Marzuki Darusman told the U.N. Human Rights Council, using the acronym of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.Darusman said that he had identified nine areas of key concern, among them depriving the population o
March 12, 2013
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N.K. raising tension among its citizens
Amid growing jitters over the peace on the Korean Peninsula due to the cutoff of the inter-Korean hotline by the North, the isolated country is intentionally ratcheting up tension among its citizens, according the country’s media that is monitored here. However, North Korea analysts here said the North’s current attitude appears to be less strained compared with the incidents in March 1993, when the country declared “a quasi-state of war,” four days before it seceded from the Treaty on the Non-P
March 12, 2013
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Rodman ‘planning vacation’ with N. Korea’s Kim
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The odd couple is getting odder: first, Dennis Rodman and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took in a hoops game side-by-side. Now they’re planning a holiday together. The retired and flamboyant 51-year-old Rodman, who announced the vacation plan Monday, became the most high-profile American to meet Kim, doing so during a recent trip to Pyongyang which came against a backdrop of increased North Korean saber-rattling on the peninsula. While officials in Washington have played dow
March 12, 2013
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S. Korea braces for North's cyber attacks
South Korea has stepped up surveillance in cyberspace to counter possible provocations by North Korea as tension runs high amid the communist country's threats of a nuclear war, the communications watchdog said Tuesday.Following Pyongyang's nuclear test last month, Seoul has issued the fourth-highest level of cyber alert and has been conducting 24-hour monitoring of the state telecommunications network, according to the Korea Communications Commission.South Korea's cyber alert system consists of
March 12, 2013
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S. Korea warns N. Korea not to scrap Korean War armistice
South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday that an Armistice Agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War remains valid, despite the North's threats to scrap the cease-fire deal. "The terms of the Armistice Agreement cannot be unilaterally invalid or terminated," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said, demanding North Korea withdraw the threats. North Korea said early this week that the armistice was "completely invalid," in response to tougher U.N. sanctions against the North's third nuc
March 12, 2013
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N.K. leader visits front-line units near western sea border
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid visits to front-line military units near the western sea border on Monday, calling for troops to throw all enemies into a "cauldron," break their "waists" and cut their "windpipes."The visit to the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment and a long-range artillery sub-unit of KPA Unit 641 near the South's western border island of Baengnyeong came as South Korean and U.S. forces kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang denounces as a rehearsal for invasion."A
March 12, 2013
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N. Korea severs communication hotline with S. Korea
North Korea severed the inter-Korean communication hotline that runs through the truce village of Panmunjom following its threat to do so last week, South Korea's unification ministry said Monday.The ministry said the North seems to have disconnected the emergency link set up to ensure prompt two-way communication to deal with any sudden developments along the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. It said attempts to contact the North by telephone at 9 a.m. failed.Pyongyang warned la
March 11, 2013
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S. Korea imposes additional sanctions on North
South Korea imposed additional sanctions against North Korea following the United Nations Security Council's toughened regulations to punish the North's Feb. 12 nuclear test, the finance ministry said Sunday.According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, South Korea put three additional North Korean officials and two entities on the blacklist, including officials from a North-based trade firm and a banker.South Korean citizens and companies making financial transactions with people and firms
March 10, 2013
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N. Korea threatens all-out war ahead of S. Korea-U.S. military drill
North Korea drummed up threats of an all-out nuclear war with South Korea and the U.S. on Sunday, one day ahead of the two allies‘ planned joint military drill which the communist country denounces as targeting the North. “Our front-line military groups, the army, the navy and the air force, the anti-aircraft units and the strategic rocket units, who have entered the final all-out war stage, are awaiting the final order to strike,” North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun, the most widely circulated daily pu
March 10, 2013