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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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[Graphic News] Number of coffee franchises in S. Korea rises 13%
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S. Korean children, teens grow taller, mature faster than before: study
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Absence of N.K. leader's uncle sparks speculation over internal power game
The absence of Jang Song-thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at a key national security meeting may be a sign of a renewed power game inside the reclusive communist nation's leadership, a U.S. expert said Sunday.Jang, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, did not attend the meeting of top North Korean officials handling security and foreign affairs, in which Kim ordered "substantial and high-profile important state measures," according to Pyongyang's official media.Kim r
Jan. 28, 2013
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N.K. leader hints at ordering nuclear test
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has expressed his stern determination to take “real, high-intensity, significant” national measures, its state media said Sunday, ratcheting up its nuclear threat.From hinting at a third nuclear test to stating the U.S. as its military target, Pyongyang has hardened its bellicose rhetoric since Wednesday, when the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution to condemn its December rocket launch.Experts said despite the risk of deeper isolation, the North resor
Jan. 27, 2013
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25 N. Korean spies arrested in past 5 years
More than two dozen North Korean spies have been arrested in the past five years of South Korea’s outgoing government of President Lee Myung-bak, officials said Sunday, a nearly 40 percent rise from the previous administration.A total of 25 spies have been arrested in South Korea since the Lee government was launched in early 2008, officials said. That represented a 39 percent increase from 18 spies caught in the previous government of President Roh Moo-hyun.By year, two of the 25 were caught in
Jan. 27, 2013
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N.K. leader pledges to take 'important state measures'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his firm intention to take "substantial and high-profile important state measures," state media reported Sunday, a remark seen as referring to a nuclear test. Kim made the statement in a national defense meeting with top military and party cadres as tensions are running high after Pyongyang threatened to conduct its third nuclear test in response to a U.N. Security Council resolution punishing the regime for its Dec. 12 rocket launch. The North has
Jan. 27, 2013
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Images suggest N. Korea ready for nuke test
North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said, pointing to recent satellite photos.The images of the Punggye-ri site where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009 reveal that over the past month roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated.But it remains difficult to discern North Korea's true intentions as a test
Jan. 26, 2013
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N. Korea renews threat to carry out nuclear test
North Korea on Saturday renewed its threat to carry out a third nuclear test, saying it is the demand of its people."A nuclear test is the demand of the people and no other choice can be made," the North's main newspaper, Rodong Shinmun, said in a commentary.The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the North's ruling Workers' Party and its "political commentaries" are seen as a means to make the powerful party's policies known."It is the people's demand that there should be something even greater than
Jan. 26, 2013
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U.S. calls for unified response to N. Korea's 'negative choices'
As North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong-un, continues to make wrong choices, it's very important for the international community to stay united against Pyongyang, the U.S. State Department official said Friday."It's really a pretty sad story, because the new North Korean leader has a choice to make, as the secretary has said so many times," department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consistently called for Kim to make a right choice to
Jan. 26, 2013
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Park to send policy consultation team to U.S.
President-elect Park Geun-hye plans to send a high-level delegation to the United States for policy consultations on North Korea, the alliance between the two countries and other pending issues, officials said Friday.Rep. Lee Hahn-koo, floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party, will visit the U.S. in the near future as head of a “policy consultation delegation” that includes three members of the transition team and government officials, said Park Sun-kyoo, a spokesman for the president-elect.The
Jan. 25, 2013
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'Command bunker' sighted at N. Korea's nuclear test site: think tank
A fortified installation, believed to be a "command bunker," has been found at North Korea's nuclear test site where the country may likely conduct another nuclear test soon, a U.S. think tank said Friday.According to "38 North", an analysis program of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, the "command bunker" is located about 150 meters from the entrance to a tunnel that may be used to carry out the nuclear test.The Punggye-ri test site on the North's northeastern co
Jan. 25, 2013
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Seoul's resettlement policy questioned, as more defectors return to North
South Korea's efforts to help North Korean defectors adapt themselves to its capitalist system have been called into question as an increasing number of them return to their communist home country.North Korea's state-run television station reported a day earlier that a defector family of three members and another woman defector have recently returned to the North after living in South Korea for a while.Referring to a news conference held by the four in Pyongyang, the North's TV report claimed th
Jan. 25, 2013
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N.K. threatens ‘physical countermeasures’ against Seoul over U.N. sanctions
North Korea on Friday threatened “physical countermeasures” against South Korea if it directly participates in United Nations-led sanctions over its rocket launch.The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said imposing sanctions was tantamount to a declaration of war and it would respond immediately to such provocations with counterstrikes. The statement was carried by the Korean Central News Agency.“If the South Korean puppet regime of traitors directly participates
Jan. 25, 2013
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N. Korea’s nuke test a provocation: U.S.
North Korea’s plan to conduct a third nuclear test is “needlessly provocative” and will only increase its isolation, the White House said Thursday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he has seen no outward sign that North Korea will follow through soon on its plan to conduct a test ― following its underground atomic explosions in 2006 and 2009. But the U.S. is fully prepared against any kind of provocation, he said.Washington slapped economic sanctions on two North Korean bank officials and a H
Jan. 25, 2013
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U.S. slaps bilateral sanctions on N. Korea
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on two North Korean bankers and a trading company, citing their links to Pyongyang's development of weapons of mass destruction.It marks a swift step to follow through on the U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea adopted two days earlier for its December rocket launch.The move is also seen as a show of the Obama administration's firm stance not to bow to North Korea threats of another nuclear test and more long-range rocket launches."By c
Jan. 25, 2013
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‘N.K. could conduct nuke test in 3-4 months’
Burwell Bell, a former commander of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, predicted Thursday that North Korea could conduct a nuclear test in the near future, stressing that the allies should remain ready to handle the threat.Speaking at a forum in Seoul, Bell also said Pyongyang should first apologize to Seoul for its two lethal provocations in 2010 before any inter-Korean talks resume, noting there has been “no remorse” for the attacks that killed 50 South Koreans. “If Kim Jong-un cond
Jan. 24, 2013
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N. Korea threatens ‘high-level’ nuke test
North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test “aimed at” the U.S. on Thursday, one day after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution condemning its December rocket launch.South Korea expressed “deep regret,” calling on the North to refrain from further provocations.“In the new phase of our century-long anti-U.S. struggle, we do not hide that various satellites, long-range rockets that we will continue to launch and a high-level nuclear test we will conduct will target our sworn enemy,
Jan. 24, 2013
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U.N. slaps more sanctions on N.K.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution condemning North Korea’s rocket launch in December and imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang’s space agency.The multi-stage rocket launch is considered part of a covert program to develop ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. The council reiterated its previous demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program in a “complete, verifiable and irreversible manner” and cease launches.Ch
Jan. 23, 2013
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N. Korea vows to end denuclearization efforts
North Korea on Wednesday vowed to end denuclearization efforts and hinted at a third nuclear test in an angry response to a new U.N. Security Council resolution condemning its December rocket launch.Pyongyang’s foreign ministry issued the statement less than two hours after the UNSC adopted the Resolution 2087, which called for expanding and toughening existing sanctions and warned of “significant action” in case of additional provocations.“Due to the U.S.’ worsening policy of hostility toward N
Jan. 23, 2013
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Seoul’s new initiatives key to North Korea standoff: Cha
South Korea should be in the driver’s seat in future multinational efforts to resolve tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programs, and incoming President Park Geun-hye’s new approach to build trust and resume exchanges with Pyongyang could play a key role in moving ahead in the process, said Victor Cha, a U.S. Northeast Asia security expert.The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday to condemn the North and toughen sanctions in response to its Dec. 12 rocket launch. The North respo
Jan. 23, 2013
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Concern rises of 3rd N.K. nuclear test
The prospect of a third nuclear test by North Korea has risen as Pyongyang on Wednesday vowed to end denuclearization efforts and strengthen nuclear deterrence in an angry response to stepped-up U.N. sanctions.Seoul officials believe the North has already completed preparations for another underground test at the Punggye-ri test site in the country’s northeast, where it carried out two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.Another test would make it difficult for the incoming Park Geun-hye government t
Jan. 23, 2013
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S. Korea closely monitoring N. Korea's nuclear test site
After North Korea hinted at conducting a nuclear test in defiance of new U.N. sanctions against its rocket launch, South Korea has stepped up monitoring of tunnels at the communist state's test site in its northeast, military officials said Wednesday.Citing satellite images that revealed excavation and related movement at the Punggye-ri test site, Seoul intelligence officials said Pyongyang is ready to detonate a nuclear device on a few days' notice, but the decision to go ahead with the test wi
Jan. 23, 2013