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SEOUL—Midlevel military officials from South and North Korea ended two days of talks Wednesday without agreeing to higher-level discussions, closing for now a slim...
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Talks led by colonels of the opposing Korean militaries were held in the border village of Panmunjom, Tuesday — the first such encounter since last November’s...
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South Korea said it was willing to meet North Korea only if the talks discuss how Kim Jong Il’s regime is going to take responsibility for last year’s attacks that...
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has said the door is open to new dialogue with North Korea.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A train packed with birthday gifts for North Korea’s leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Un derailed this month in a possible act of sabotage, a...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Fresh off a peacekeeping trip to the Korean peninsula, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson warned violence between North and South Korea could flare...
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea will hold its largest winter live-fire drills Thursday in an area adjacent to North Korea, the South Korean army said...
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Reporting from Seoul —
South Korea on Tuesday braced for a surprise attack from North Korea following this week’s provocative live-fire drills in disputed...
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Dec 21 (Reuters) - Seoul shares bounced and hit a 38-month closing high on Tuesday as investor anxiety over growing geopolitical tensions in the Korean peninsula eased,...
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(Reuters) - South Korea conducted a military drill from a disputed island off the west coast of the divided peninsula on Monday, firing a range of weaponry in the face...
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The South Korean military has held live-firing exercises on Yeonpyeong island - the scene of a deadly attack by the North last month.
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Fighter jets buzzed Seoul today to simulate an attack by North Korea as the South conducted its biggest emergency drill in response to the deadly shelling of Yeonpyeong...
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(RTTNews) - A South Korean fishing trawler has gone down in freezing waters off Antarctica on Monday leaving at least five people dead, Seoul’s official Yonhap...
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Several South Korean civilians and soldiers were wounded and many others were being evacuated to bunkers on an island hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North...
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Evidence of a new North Korean nuclear plant is disappointing and provocative, says the top US envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth.
made popular Nov 22 2010
SEOUL, South Korea — New satellite images of a North Korean nuclear site and a recent visit to the North by two American experts suggest that Pyongyang has started...
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(CNN) — Taiwan has rallied behind a taekwondo athlete who was controversially disqualified at the Asian Games in China, setting up Internet support groups and...
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By JONATHAN WEISMAN and DAMIAN PALETTA SEOUL—President Barack Obama headed toward the close of the Group of 20 summit, weakened by an anemic economic recovery and an...
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SEOUL—David Cameron is poised to become the first British prime minister to visit Russia since 2005 after accepting an invitation from Russian President Dmitry...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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WORLD LEADERS have been gathering in the South Korean capital Seoul to discuss ways of rebalancing the global economy.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev took the...
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By EVAN RAMSTAD and JONATHAN WEISMAN
SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea missed a self-imposed deadline to revive a stalled free-trade deal, but leaders of the two...
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By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: November 10, 2010
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A 7-foot bulletproof wall going up around the summit site in Seoul is seen as repressive. Other measures are extensive, including 60,000 security forces to help handle...
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A final statement to be released at the end of the Group of 20 summit will not comment on any individual currency, an Indian official close to the negotiations said on...
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The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.
The...
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On the 100th anniversary Tuesday of Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, office worker Hwang Jung-won listened as Japan’s prime minister apologized...
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Hillary Clinton arrives in South Korea to show support US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in South Korea for “a real show of solidarity”...
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South Korea’s parliament voted Tuesday to legalize chemical castration as punishment for convicted child sex offenders after a series of violent assaults sparked...
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Balloons released by schoolchildren sparked a major security alert in South Korea, reports say, amid heightened tensions with North Korea.
A resident of Ansan, near...
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Israel, of course, deserves widespread international for its deliberate massacre of civilians in international waters. And it has received precisely that with the U.S....
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Sinking of South Korean naval ship MYSTERY explained?
The sinking of South Korean ship is turning into a mystery with North steadfastnessedly refusing to accept...
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The South Koreans sunken ship.
North Korea truly is insane. The most despotic and depraved regime in the world recently torpedoed a South Korean ship in international...
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South Korea’s president said Monday his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea’s “brutality” and said the regime would pay for a surprise...
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The South Korean navy has begun to raise the stern section of one of its warships which sank after an unexplained explosion last month.
Fifty-eight sailors were...
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The former boss of Samsung Electronics, who was convicted of tax evasion and later given a presidential pardon, has returned to head the company.
Lee Kun-hee headed...
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North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam, a South...
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Most of us spend far too much time online. With blogging and googling, twitter and facebook and myspace, we can spend hours upon hours glued to our computer screens,...
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A Korean couple allowed their child to starve to death because of their addiction to raising a ‘virtual’ child in a Second-Life-style game online known as...
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South Korean performers wearing traditional costumers dance a Parilmu during a Jongmyo Daeje ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 3, 2009. Jongmyo Daeje is a memorial service honoring all the kings and queens of the Joseon Dynasty which ruled...
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