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North Korea Military Parade Ahead of Winter Olympics

North Korea appears to have held a low-key military parade, a day ahead of the Winter Olympics, South Korean media...

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North Korea Military Parade Ahead of Winter Olympics

North Korea appears to have held a low-key military parade, a day ahead of the Winter Olympics, South Korean media...

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N. Korea Appears To Be Preparing New Missile Test

Speculation intensified Tuesday that North Korea is preparing another missile launch to coincide with a military...

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Japan Protests S.Korea’s ‘comfort Women’ Heritage Bid

Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with South Korea over its support for registering with the United Nations...

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US Returns Looted Royal Seals To S.Korea

South Korean President Moon Jae-In is returning from an official visit to Washington with two ancient royal seals...

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Why Korea’s ‘film Noir’ Movies Are Wowing Cannes

Beyond the gleaming towers of modern high-tech Seoul, it is the dark past of South Korea's years of dictatorship,...

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Who Is Moon Jae-In, South Korea’s Likely New President?

Who is Moon Jae-in, South Korea's likely new president? Moon celebrates after exit polls show him as the winner of...

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Polls Open To Choose New President

South Koreans are voting in a presidential election, called early after a huge corruption scandal brought down their...

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College Confirms N. Korea Detains US Citizen Amid Tension

A foreign-funded university in North Korea has confirmed the arrest of a US citizen who was lecturing there -- the...

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S.Korea Outrage Over Trump’s China Comment

Buffeted by the currents of diplomacy, South Korea is sometimes described as a "shrimp between two whales", and US...

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South Korean Civic Groups Moving To Oppose THAAD Deployment

Civic and religious groups in South Korea are moving to oppose the deployment of the U. S. Terminal High Altitude Area...

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Growing Concern For Missing Ship Crew

Rescuers say they have made little headway in finding survivors from a huge South Korean ship that sank in the South...

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Trading Nations For An Olympic Ice Hockey Ticket

Fidgeting nervously, Canadian ice hockey defenceman Alex Plante cleared his throat and addressed a roomful of Olympic...

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Dozens of Lotte Stores Suspended In China Amid Missile Row

South Korean retail giant Lotte has been forced to shut down dozens of stores in China, it said Tuesday as diplomatic...

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War of Words After Death of North Korean

The murder of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in a crowded Malaysian airport has made headlines...

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South Korea Suspects Female Assassins Killed Half-Brother of North Korea Leader

South Korea's spy agency suspects two female North Korean agents assassinated the estranged half-brother of North...

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North Korea Suspected Behind Murder of Leader’s Half-Brother

The U. S. government strongly believes that North Korean agents murdered the estranged half-brother of North Korean...

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North Korean Leader’s Half-Brother Kim Jong-Nam ‘killed In Malaysia’

The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia, South Korean and Malaysian sources...

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North Korea ‘conducts Ballistic Missile Test’

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korea's military says, the first such test since Donald Trump took...