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Made Popular Nov 10 2009
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The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said.

There were no South Korean casualties, the country’s..

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South Korea’s president offered North Korea a “grand bargain” Monday in which the North would receive much-needed economic assistance in return for...
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South Korea has long felt under-recognized for its many achievements: it built an economic powerhouse from the ruins of a vicious war in just decades and, after years...
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South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international...
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In pursuit of middle-class prosperity, South Koreans have looted their household savings like no other people on Earth. They have collectively binged on private...
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North Korea on Thursday seized a stray South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members, ratcheting up tensions after a week of aggressive sabre-rattling from the...
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Korean mountaineer Eun Sun Oh reached the summit of the famous Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, on Friday, July 10, 2009. She was leading an expedition including...
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U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
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Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...
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With his clean white university sweatshirt and shiny cellphone, Lee Chang-shik looks the part of a manager at a condominium development company, the job that he held...
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May 5 2009 by AP0 Comments

North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.

 
 
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North Korea took a fresh swipe at President Barack Obama on Monday, saying his administration is no different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

 
 
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Asian stock markets soared Monday, led by gains of 5 percent or more in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and India, amid upbeat economic signs from China and the United States. European markets opened higher, too.

 
 
May 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

A South Korean navy warship has rescued a North Korean freighter by driving away a pirate ship chasing it off Somalia.

 
 
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Asian stock markets rose Monday, led by Taiwan, on optimism about emerging strength in the U.S. economy and easing fears about swine flu.

 
 
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Asian stock markets rose Monday on optimism about emerging strength in the U.S. economy and easing fears about swine flu.

 
 
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Health authorities in South Korea said Saturday they have confirmed the country’s first case of swine flu in a woman who recently returned from Mexico.

 
 
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A news report says South Korea has its first confirmed case of swine flu.

 
 
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South Korea’s trade surplus hit a record high for the second straight month in April as imports fell sharply on cheaper costs for oil and as declines in exports eased, the government said Friday.

 
 
May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

North Korea said Friday it is intensifying its investigation into a South Korean worker detained on suspicion of denouncing the communist nation’s government, indicating it had no intention of releasing him any time soon.

 
 
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