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The Korea Military Academy plans to lift a decades-old ban on drinking, smoking and marrying to reflect social change, the Army said Sunday. The elite military academy has prohibited cadets from drinking, smoking or marrying while attending school to teach discipline since its estab...
Updated : 2014.03.09 15:40
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South Korea's government plans to support local companies export more space-related products in order to push up sales in the hightech industry to 1.35 trillion won ($1.27 billion) in 2014, an official source said Sunday. The plan is part of an ongoing effort by Seoul to grab a lar...
Updated : 2014.03.09 10:22
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Operations at the inter-Korean industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong have almost recovered to their level before the park came to a sudden halt early last year, data showed Sunday. The Kaesong Industrial Complex was shut down in early April2013 after the North p...
Updated : 2014.03.09 10:21
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North Koreans vote Sunday in a pre-determined election for a rubber-stamp parliament -- an exercise that doubles as a national head count and may offer clues to power shifts in Pyongyang. Apart from the physical casting of votes, there is nothing democratic about the ballot. The resu...
Updated : 2014.03.09 09:13
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A presidential aide offered to resign Saturday after allegations were raised that he illegally intervened in the ruling party's nomination process for candidates who want to run in June's local elections, the presidential office said. "Lim Jong-hoon, a presidential secretary for ci...
Updated : 2014.03.09 09:09
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Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered Saturday that emergency measures be taken to find a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 jet that went missing with more than 150 Chinese on board. Flight MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, lost contact with air traffic controllers earlier Sat...
Updated : 2014.03.09 09:07
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North Korea's two major universities, Kimilsung University and Kimchaek University, were found to have inscribed their names in English on their emblems, pro-North Korean media in Japan reported Saturday. According to the Choson Sinbo, the North's most prestigious university, named a...
Updated : 2014.03.08 16:49
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North Korea on Saturday lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his remarks on MSNBC last month, according to its state media. "North Korea is one of the most closed and cruel places on earth," Kerry said on Feb. 26 in an interview with the U.S. television broadcaster, add...
Updated : 2014.03.08 14:43
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday that China "will never allow war or instability" on the Korean Peninsula. Wang also urged North Korea and the United States to make joint efforts to achieve the "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," describing a long-running stando...
Updated : 2014.03.08 12:42
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Four U.S. congressmen submitted a resolution to a House committee calling for the reunion of Koreans in the United States with their long-lost families in North Korea, according to the Library of Congress. The measure was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel, Howard Coble, John Conyers and...
Updated : 2014.03.08 11:15
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Malaysia and Vietnam launched searches on Saturday for a Malaysia Airlines flight that lost contact with traffic controllers, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.Vietnamese state m...
Updated : 2014.03.08 10:24
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Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se on Friday urged Japan to take steps to resolve the sex slavery issue, warning that it will otherwise face “further isolation” from the international community. He made ...
Updated : 2014.03.07 20:27
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The government reaffirmed Friday that it would sternly punish doctors participating in a strike next week, urging them to step back from “illegal action.”“(Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health and Welfare) issued a work order to doctors to open their clinics on Monday,” Health and...
Updated : 2014.03.07 20:25
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Prosecutors on Friday launched a full-fledged investigation into allegations that the state intelligence agency helped the prosecution in charging a North Korea defector with espionage by fabricating evidence.The case of Yoo Woo-seong, a 34-year-old former civil servant for the Seoul munic...
Updated : 2014.03.07 20:24
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South Korea's two most popular opposition groups reached an agreement Friday on the next steps for their planned merger, paving the way for its launch ahead of upcoming local elections. The agreement came five days after the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) and the opposition...
Updated : 2014.03.07 20:17
