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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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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. Korean spy arrested after claiming to be defector
A North Korean spy has been caught impersonating a defector from the North, the South's public security authorities said Saturday.The man was identified as a member of the North's Military Security Command in a routine investigation of newly arrived defectors, government agencies, including the Nati
Nov. 19, 2011
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S. Korea welcomes IAEA resolution on Iran's nuke program
South Korea on Saturday hailed a resolution by the United Nations' nuclear energy agency expressing "deep and increasing concern" about Iran's nuclear program.The resolution was adopted on Friday during a meeting in Vienna of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."W
Nov. 19, 2011
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Human rights panel demands halt to summary executions of NK defectors
South Korea's state human rights panel said Saturday it has adopted a statement urging North Korea and China to immediately stop summarily executing defectors from the North in the border area, arguing the executions violatepeople's right to life."Summary executions of North Korea defectors are cont
Nov. 19, 2011
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S. Korea allows Buddhist group to visit N. Korea for looted artifacts
South Korea said Friday it has allowed a seven-member Buddhist delegation to travel to North Korea next week for discussions on a joint project to return artifacts seized by Japan from the Korean Peninsula during the 1910-45 colonial occupation. The approval is the latest apparent sign of lessening
Nov. 18, 2011
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Chinese Premier Wen calls for early resumption of N. Korea nuclear talks
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held one-one-one talks with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Friday and discussed the North Korean nuclear standoff and other issues, an official said.Their meeting took place as the leaders gathered on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for a series of ann
Nov. 18, 2011
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Unification minister to visit China next week
Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik will meet with China’s State Councilor Dai Bingguo and other high-ranking officials next week to seek their opinions on South Korea’s policy toward North Korea, the Unification Ministry said on Friday.Other Chinese officials scheduled to meet with Yu include Tang Jiaxuan, former state councilor of China, Wang Jiarui, director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.Yu’s visit will tak
Nov. 18, 2011
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N.K. defectors plan mass rally on Kim Jong-il’s birthday
Defectors from North Korea plan to designate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s birthday “world North Korean defectors’ day,” and hold a rally on the day, a high profile defector said Friday.According to An Chan-il, the chief of World Institute of North Korea Studies and the first defector to obtain a doctorate degree in politics in South Korea, groups representing defectors will celebrate Feb. 16 in honor of those who escaped the regime.An also said that the representatives plan to bring togethe
Nov. 18, 2011
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Minister says Seoul not seeking N.K.’s collapse
South Korea is not seeking North Korea’s collapse, a top Seoul official in charge of relations with Pyongyang said Thursday, in an apparent move aimed at dispelling North Korea’s distrust toward South Korea.North Korea has repeatedly accused South Korea of plotting to absorb its impoverished northern neighbor as a way to achieve unification of the Korean Peninsula.“Unification through absorption leads to war,” the Disarmament and Peace Institute of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statem
Nov. 17, 2011
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold talks on N. Korea in Bali
Senior diplomats from South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks in Indnesia on Thursday to coordinate their joint strategy on the North Korean nuclear standoff, a Seoul official said. The trilateral meeting, to be held later in the day ahead of the 18-nation East Asia Summit in Bali, will be led by Lim Sung-nam, Seoul’s chief envoy to the stalled six-nation talks on ending the North’s nuclear weapons programs, his Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama and Kurt Campbell
Nov. 17, 2011
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S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold talks on N. Korea in Bali
Senior diplomats from South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks in Indnesia on Thursday to coordinate their joint strategy on the North Korean nuclear standoff, a Seoul official said. The trilateral meeting, to be held later in the day ahead of the 18-nation East Asia Summi
Nov. 17, 2011
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Obama: US will act firmly against N Korea nuclear
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) _ President Barack Obama says the United States will act firmly against any nuclear proliferation activities by North Korea.In a speech to the Australian Parliament on Thursday, Obama says the transfer of nuclear material by North Korea to others would be ``considered a grav
Nov. 17, 2011
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Greece seizes N. Korea chemical weapons suits: diplomats
Greek authorities seized almost 14,000 anti-chemical weapons suits from a North Korean ship possibly headed for Syria but did not disclose the find for nearly two years, diplomats said Wednesday.The seizure was reported to the UN Security Council, which discussed the monitoring of nuclear sanctions
Nov. 17, 2011
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North Koreans still undergo hardships, recent visitor says
A British professor who recently visited North Korea said Pyongyang citizens are still impoverished, though North Korean media are pouring out reports on how their factories and companies have boosted production. The North Korean mouthpieces, including the North Korean Central Broadcasting Station, have been releasing news reports about how the communist state’s light industries and factories overachieved their initial production targets.Hazel Smith, professor of security at Cranfield University
Nov. 16, 2011
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U.S. ‘concerned’ about N.K. light water reactor in Yongbyon
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States raised concerns Tuesday over a nuclear reactor in North Korea that the communist state claims will soon start operating.North Korea’s uranium enrichment program “and construction of a light-water reactor violate U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as their commitment to the 2005 joint statement,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.“We have concerns,” said Toner. “Certainly we’re concerned about the matter.”North Korea on Nov. 10 announced throug
Nov. 16, 2011
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N. Korean defectors seek refuge abroad
Experts say better social care needed to help them adapt to life in SouthMany North Korean defectors who risked their lives to come here have sought asylum in other countries after failing to adapt to life in the South, where they initially thought a rosy future lay ahead.When they land on foreign soil on a travel visa, they immediately discard their passports to disguise themselves as asylum seekers coming directly from the impoverished state, according to defectors and North Korea experts.Expe
Nov. 16, 2011
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Iran denies nuclear cooperation with N. Korea
The Iranian Embassy in Seoul claimed Tehran has indigenous technology for a peaceful nuclear program, saying it is opposed to the development of nuclear weapons. “Iran’s nuclear technology is completely domestically made, thus no foreign experts are needed,” the embassy said in an e-mail statement. The statement came one day after Yonhap news agency reported that hundreds of North Korean nuclear and missile experts have been collaborating with Iranian counterparts in more than 10 locations acros
Nov. 15, 2011
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Oh asks for global help to save his family in North Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A teary old Korean man appealed Monday to legislators from around the world for help in his desperate efforts to meet his wife and two daughters who he hopes are alive in North Korea.“I believe they are alive. Otherwise, I don’t have a reason to live,” Oh Kil-nam, a 69-year-old retired economist, said at an international forum held on Capitol Hill.He was testifying at the eighth general meeting of the International Parliamentarians’ Coalition for North Korean Refugees
Nov. 15, 2011
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S. Korea adopts more flexible N.K. stance
Seoul sends hepatitis B vaccines to Pyongyang, halts flying propaganda leafletsThe South Korean government has been taking a more “flexible” approach to North Korea since Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik took office in September. The Unification Ministry said Tuesday it had finished sending 1 million hepatitis B vaccines for North Korean children with the help of international aid group Caritas Germany and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare. The vaccinations are worth 1.06 billion w
Nov. 15, 2011
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S. Korean historians visit N.K. for safety survey of royal palace
A group of South Korean historians and cultural artifact experts traveled to North Korea on Monday to conduct a joint safety survey of the site of an ancient royal palace in the communist state, officials said. The visit was to follow up on a meeting held in North Korea on Oct. 28 between historians of the two Koreas in which they reached a consensus for a quick resumption of a long-stalled inter-Korean project to excavate the site.The two Koreas launched the project to uncover the remains of Ma
Nov. 14, 2011
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N. Korea's propaganda Web site adds links to SNS sites
North Korea's government-run Web site began linking posts critical of South Korea to popular social networking sites (SNS) to allow netizens to more easily spread its message online, in its latest effort to step up cyber propaganda. The official Web site of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunificati
Nov. 14, 2011