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Seoul vows action over Naver's Line, Yahoo dispute
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[Grace Kao] American racism against Stray Kids
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Key S. Korean, USFK special operations officials to hold rare meeting amid NK threats
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Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
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In Beijing, S. Korean top diplomat aims to jumpstart ties with China
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NewJeans' members' parents complained to Hybe, email shows
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Controversy brews over shakeup of prosecutors amid probe of first lady
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Suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested
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Prosecutors summon pastor involved in Dior bag scandal
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N.K.’s participation in Vietnam War described in new dossier
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― North Korea dispatched dozens of pilots to the Vietnam War decades ago, with its communist ally short of specialists to operate MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighter jets in battles against the United States, according to a recently released dossier.“On 21 September 1966 an official North Korean request to be allowed to send a North Korean Air Force regiment to help defend North Vietnam against U.S air attacks was officially reviewed and approved by the Vietnamese Communist Party’
Dec. 5, 2011
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U.S.-N.K. talks floated amid envoy’s visit
Glyn Davies to meet with South Korean chief negotiator this weekHigh-ranking officials of the U.S. and North Korea may hold a third round of negotiations on the stalled six-party nuclear talks after the new U.S. special envoy to North Korea visits his South Korean counterpart in Seoul this week, sources said.Glyn Davies, who has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was appointed special envoy to North Korea, replacing Stephen Bosworth.Davies was introduc
Dec. 5, 2011
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South Korea to give $5.7 million to N.K. through UNICEF
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the government will offer $5.65 million to North Korea for humanitarian purposes through the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF.The donated money will be used for vaccines for children and pregnant women, medicine kits for children, instant foods, food supplements and nutrients for prevention of malnutrition. The government said the donation will benefit about 1.46 million North Koreans.“The decision is in line with the government’s basic stance of
Dec. 5, 2011
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Marshmallows to be sent to N. Korea on Christmas Eve
A civic group led by a U.S. pastor said it will send marshmallows in balloons to North Korea on Christmas Eve.Seoul USA, which annually launches balloons into North Korea containing religious material and daily necessities, said it will send thousands of marshmallow stars, Christmas trees and reindeer into the world’s most isolated country.“The balloons are launched from secret locations on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone,” the group said in a statement.Eric Foley, co-founder and
Dec. 2, 2011
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U.S. lawmakers urge POW return from North Korea
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday unanimously approved a symbolic resolution calling on North Korea to return U.S. and South Korean prisoners of war and any civilian detainees.The bill, adopted by House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, urges North Korea to release any such prisoners and admit to abducting more than 100,000 South Korean civilians, reveal their status, and free them.It also presses the U.S. government to resume search and r
Dec. 1, 2011
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Photos confirm mobilization of college students at N.K. construction sites
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Recent photos taken by an American visitor confirmed Thursday that North Korea has mobilized its college students in massive construction projects in Pyongyang ahead of a milestone political event next year.The North has launched the construction drive as part of attempts t
Dec. 1, 2011
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Court rejects arrest warrant for police chief assailant
A local court on Tuesday rejected the prosecution’s request to arrest a man accused of assaulting Jongno Police Chief Park Geon-chan. The Seoul Central District Court said it was unclear whether Park was assaulted, and that the accused, identified by his family name Kim, had the right to defend himself from the accusations.Kim, 54, was apprehended on Nov. 27 after police film footage showed him grabbing Park’s cap and yelling at him around 9:30 p.m. during a rally against the ratification of the
Nov. 30, 2011
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N.K.’s fiery words may be complaints about inter-Korean relations
A sudden increase in the vehemence of North Korea’s anti-South Korea propaganda may be a show of dissatisfaction at unchanging inter-Korean relations.Beginning in the final days of November, the North began making anti-Seoul statements with renewed vigor.On Nov. 24, North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency reported that the Supreme Command of the North Korean People’s Army would turn Cheong Wa Dae into a “sea of fire” and that the fire will grow until it destroys “the base of the traitors.”The th
Nov. 30, 2011
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N.K. claims uranium, reactor projects progressing rapidly
North Korea announced on Wednesday that its enriched uranium production efforts are “progressing apace,” scoffing at calls from South Korea and the U.S. to halt all related programs.North Korea has called for an early resumption of the six-party talks without preconditions, but South Korea and the U.S. insist Pyongyang must first take concrete steps to show its sincerity, such as a monitored shutdown of its uranium enrichment plant.Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said that it was speeding up the co
Nov. 30, 2011
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‘Two Koreas should restore channel of communication for improving ties’
A U.S. expert on the Korean peninsular issues on Wednesday stressed the need to restore an inter-Korean communication channel to ease the strained ties between the two Koreas.Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korean studies and director for the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, also said that as China’s top priority is regional stability, its policy toward North Korea may not change any time soon.“It is better to have a channel of communication with North Korea than
Nov. 30, 2011
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Six-party talks ‘not effective’ framework for denuclearization of North Korea
A renowned U.S. expert in East Asia affairs said on Wednesday the six-party talks framework is unworkable stressing South Korea and the U.S. should not expect too much of China in resolving North Korean nuclear issues.Balbina Hwang, assistant adjunct professor at Georgetown University, also said that the communist state is unlikely to renounce its nuclear ambitions and will continue to use deceptive means to gain economic concessions at the multilateral denuclearization talks.“We have to underst
Nov. 30, 2011
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Opposition leader urges more exchanges with N. Korea
The head of South Korea's main opposition party called on the Seoul government Tuesday to expand its dialogue with North Korea, claiming only cooperation and exchanges can bring changes to the communist North."Raising the level of exchange and cooperation between the South and the North can change N
Nov. 29, 2011
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Seoul stages anti-piracy exercise
South Korea on Tuesday staged a joint anti-piracy exercise in the waters off the southeastern city of Masan, involving its latest replacement forces for its 300-strong contingent in Somali waters.The naval exercise, also involving coast guards and a vessel from a private shipping company, was jointl
Nov. 29, 2011
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Precondition makes resumption of 6-party talks difficult: Blix
Hans Blix, former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the U.S. and South Korea’s precondition for North Korea to halt uranium enrichment could make it more difficult to start six-party negotiations.Blix visited Korea as a member of an eminent persons’ group, or EPG, to provide advice to President Lee Myung-bak for when South Korea hosts the Nuclear Security Summit in March, next year. The group members held their first meeting in Seoul on Tuesday“The status of North
Nov. 29, 2011
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S. Korea to auction off baby food for N. Korean children
South Korea has taken steps to auction off some baby food originally intended for North Korean children, an official said Tuesday.The move comes nearly two months after South Korea dropped a plan to send 5 billion won ($4.3 million) worth of aid to North Korean flood victims, citing no response from the North as the reason for the change of plan.South Korea had insisted it would deliver baby food, biscuits and instant noodles to the North instead of cement and equipment requested by the North.So
Nov. 29, 2011
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Pyongyang's construction drive said to kill hundreds of college students
North Korean college students have reportedly died in a spate of accidents at construction sites amid intense efforts by Pyongyang to prepare for a milestone political event next year, a source familiar with the issue said Tuesday.The alleged accidents sparked rumors that an estimated 200 college st
Nov. 29, 2011
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‘U.S. experts on Korea to visit Pyongyang this week’
About five or six U.S. experts on Korean affairs are scheduled to visit Pyongyang sometime this week, a diplomatic source here said Sunday.“Experts and scholars who study issues on the Korean Peninsula have been invited by the North Korean foreign ministry and may visit the North this week,” the source said. “The purpose of their trip isn’t known, and I am trying to find out more about their trip and also the intentions of North Korea.”The U.S. delegation will reportedly include Joel Wit, a rese
Nov. 27, 2011
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N.K. leader faces challenges in power succession, Yu says
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il faces challenges in handing over power to his youngest son, Seoul’s top official in charge of relations with Pyongyang said.Kim named Jong-un vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party and a four-star general last year in the clearest sign yet of his intentions to make his son the country’s next leader.The 69-year-old leader is believed to have accelerated the succession plan since he suffered a stroke in 2008.The plan, if realiz
Nov. 27, 2011
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Firms in N. Korea face uncertainties
South Korean manufacturing companies operating in North Korea outside Gaeseong still face an uncertain future, despite the South’s hints at a softening stance toward Pyongyang, sources said.The government has appeared to be loosening its “May 24 measures,” which banned all exchanges and cooperation with the North after the sinking of the Cheonan, since Yu Woo-ik took the helm of the Unification Ministry in September.Yu has allowed South Korean firms at Gaeseong Industrial Complex to continue pro
Nov. 27, 2011
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N. Korea bolsters coastal patrol to deter defection: sources
North Korea's navy has bolstered its coastal patrol to deter its nationals from defecting to South Korea via the sea, South Korean sources said Sunday."North Korean patrol boats have ratcheted up their monitoring in waters off Tungsangot, Haeju and Kangryong," one source said, referring to areas all
Nov. 27, 2011