...m Jong-il is likely to have pleaded for steady financial support from China, his impoverished state’s last-remaining benefactor, during his purported talks with President Hu Jintao, officials and anal...ng the U.S. and South Korea, keen to prevent changes that might occur in the case of the Kim regime’s collapse. Although North Korea often causes it a headache, being Pyongyang’s sole ally gives Beiji...

...nially since its inception in 2001. Among them are 250 foreigners from 20 countries including the U.S., China, Japan, Russia, Canada and India. Organizers say the event seeks to reach the status of t...dministration and nine sessions on environmental issues. Along with 17 other organizations, Norway’s word-renowned Peace Research Institute Oslo also helped organize sessions, officials said. The fo...

Seoul and Tokyo are discussing whether President Lee Myung-bak should accept his Japanese counterpart’s invitation for a state visit this fall, Lee’s spokesperson said Thursday. Prime Minister Nato Kan extended the invitation during his summit talks with Lee held Sunday in Tokyo on the sidelines of the annual Korea-Japan-China summit. “President Lee said Seoul’s foreign ministry will hold worki...

...lated treatment,” the scientist said. He added that his team has acquired important know-how and plans to carry out clinical tests on patients in due time. Technology developed by the KAIST team has been submitted for international intellectual property rights protection and has been published in this month’s issue of the U.S.-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Yonhap News)

... Arai looking for Seok and heard four or five rounds being fired right after. “I was unable to see Arai shooting the skipper but I am certain it was Arai who did so,” he said. However the defendant’s lawyer denied the attempted murder charges, saying that nobody had witnessed Arai shooting the captain, that only one AK round was found in Seok’s body and that there was only one AK shell in the surrounding area. The defending lawyers also said that the pirates brought the sailors up to the deck to “show that the sailors are safe, so the com...

The U.S. media has highlighted health risks related to excessive exposure to 3-D television at home, warning that it could negatively impact eyesight, especially among children. Citing expert opinio...ple because it uses this active system which turns on and off, sort-of flashes in front of a person’s eyes and that can be what’s often provoking for seizures,“ she explains. The active “shutter-glas...

LG Uplus Corp., Korea’s smallest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it plans to begin a nationwide long term evolution service by mid-2012, moving up its schedule for the fourth-generation mobile service on booming smartphone demand. LG Uplus will begin offering the service in 82 cities around the country before the end of this year and complete its nationwide 4G network in July next year, the c...

U.S. Lone Star Funds has been suspected of omitting a significant document when it made a report to Korea’s financial regulator in March, an opposition lawmaker alleged. Rep. Lim Young-ho of the Liberty Forward Party said a unit of Lone Star owns 130 golf courses worth about 3.7 trillion won ($3.36 billion) in Japan, demanding regulatory sanction against the buyout fund. He called for the Finan...