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(AFP) -- Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, the new friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will this month make a third visit to the reclusive state to train its basketball team, a source involved in the trip said Wednesday.The heavily tattooed former Chicago Bulls star is organising frien...
Updated : 2013.12.04 21:13
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Seoul’s Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said Wednesday that North Korea is currently in the process of purging associates of Jang Song-thaek, the apparently ousted uncle of leader Kim Jong-un.Duri...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:44
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The apparent ouster of Jang Song-thaek, a key guardian and uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has raised the prospect of shifts in the reclusive state’s power structure and external policies.S...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:35
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North Korea is aggressively beefing up its cyber warfare capabilities by adding child prodigies to its 3,000-strong special hacker unit targeting South Korea and its allies, an expert said Tuesday, citing the testimonies of North Korean defectors. Pyongyang regularly screens math and scien...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:21
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A day after Seoul’s top intelligence agency talked of the possible purge of Jang Song-thaek, the powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, doubts still linger over his fate.Analysts argued t...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:20
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The apparent removal of Jang Song-thaek and his two lieutenants is the most extensive, but only the latest, purge of top officials as young leader Kim Jong-un tightens his grip on power. Jang, Kim’s ...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:19
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South Korea is on alert over choking smog originating from wintertime coal use in China, which is threatening people’s respiratory and immune systems.The concentration of fine dust particles smaller than 10 micrometers in diameter, or PM10, increased to more than three times normal levels...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:17
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Updated : 2013.12.04 20:15
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will visit South Korea next week for talks with President Park Geun-hye. The will mainly discuss ways to enhance economic cooperation, especially in developing future growth engines for their countries, Park’s office said Wednesday.Lee will arrive ...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:14
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The ministries of gender equality, justice and labor will conduct a joint inspection of local businesses hiring foreign performers to tackle a growing number of prostitution and wage exploitation cases being reported in recent years, officials said Wednesday.The measure came after civic gr...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:14
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Rival parties began reviewing the government’s budget plans on Wednesday, following an agreement the day before on processing reforms of the intelligence agency and election process. But the interparty feud, which has brought the National Assembly to a halt on several occasions this year,...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:13
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The teaching of history is, or at least definitely should be, fundamental to any culture and its education systems. This may be truer for countries like South Korea with a difficult history of wars, c...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:12
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Controversy is simmering over allegations that a question did not have a correct answer on the national college entrance exam, where even a one-point difference can make or break the fate of college a...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:11
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth’s environment are more worrisome than climate change’s bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the federal government concluded Tuesday.The 200-page report by the National Academy of Sciences looked at war...
Updated : 2013.12.04 19:45
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WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A comet that grabbed attention worldwide for being likened to a massive snowball in space did not survive its brush with the sun last week, NASA confirmed on Tuesday.“Though the exact time of ISON’s death is uncertain it does appear to be no more. All that is left is ...
Updated : 2013.12.04 19:45
