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President Park Geun-hye on Friday named three deputy chiefs for the National Intelligence Service as the spy agency recalibrated its role in dealing with North Korea and security threats amid heighte...
Updated : 2013.04.12 21:57
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President Park Geun-hye apologized to her rival political party on Friday for "causing concern" over a series of resignations by her nominees for senior government posts, a spokesman said. The presi...
Updated : 2013.04.12 21:28
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The nation's ruling and main opposition parties agreed Friday to form a special parliamentary committee to formally discuss the issue of amending the Constitution, a pledge that both sides made ahead...
Updated : 2013.04.12 13:54
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President Park Geun-hye named all three deputy chiefs at South Korea's main intelligence agency on Friday, tapping a North Korea expert to take charge of affairs concerning the communist country, the...
Updated : 2013.04.12 11:18
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President Park Geun-hye assured foreign investors here Thursday that South Korea will remain a safe and stable place for business in a meeting held amidst growing concerns over North Korea’s threats...
Updated : 2013.04.11 20:40
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The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a three-year-and-six-month prison term for Shin Jae-min, who was a vice culture minister under the Lee Myung-bak administration, for bribery. Shin was convict...
Updated : 2013.04.11 20:22
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South Korea will issue K-11 assault rifles to frontline troops in June after fixing defects that had caused the rifle to explode in a previous test, military officials said Thursday. The dual-barrel...
Updated : 2013.04.11 20:21
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The number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea shrank nearly 10 percent in the first three months of 2013 from a year earlier, government data showed Thursday. A total of 320 North Koreans def...
Updated : 2013.04.11 20:21
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The official campaign for the April 24 by-elections kicked off Thursday, with much of the public and media attention focused on the three parliamentary seats up for grabs. The elections are the firs...
Updated : 2013.04.11 20:21
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South Korea's central bank on Thursday revised down its economic growth forecast for this year to 2.6 percent from its earlier estimate of 2.8 percent amid the global slowdown. The Bank of Korea (BO...
Updated : 2013.04.11 11:57
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Rep. Chung Mong-joon of the ruling Saenuri Party is once again causing a stir over nuclear armament, saying Seoul should keep open the option of withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty t...
Updated : 2013.04.10 20:17
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Politicians should not interfere in the appointment or dismissal of presidents of major television networks, the nominee for the nation’s broadcasting regulator said Wednesday. Lee Kyeong-jae, a fo...
Updated : 2013.04.10 20:13
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President Park Geun-hye is trying to patch things up with the two main political parties, timing her approach with heightened calls for teamwork against security threats from North Korea and ahead of...
Updated : 2013.04.10 20:12
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A foreign correspondent reports about rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula in front of the North-South Transit Office near the demilitarized zone on Wednesday. (Lee Sang-sub/ The Korea Herald) Wh...
Updated : 2013.04.10 17:55
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Lawmakers decided Wednesday to put the nomination of the Constitutional Court chief to a full National Assembly vote, paving the way for the nominee's appointment to the job. The decision came at a ...
Updated : 2013.04.10 14:44
