Posts Tagged ‘korea’
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
North Korea appears to be ready to carry out a nuclear test whenever leaders of the reclusive state give the green light, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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Seoul: N. Korea ready for nuclear test
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
North Korea warns that it will bolster its nuclear programme and take unspecified counter-measures unless the US eases diplomatic pressure on it.

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N Korea gives new nuclear warning
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans are free and have arrived in China, reports say.

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North Koreans ‘free Chinese crew’
Tags: China, chinese, korea, korean, north, north-korea, north-koreans, three-boats, yellow, yellow sea
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
South Korea urges North Korea to follow a ‘different path to peace’ at the start of talks with the US and Japan, amid fears of a third nuclear test.

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S Korea urges North on ‘new path’
Tags: amid-fears, different-path, japan, korea, north-korea, nuclear, peace, rent, south, the-start
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
When it comes to travel insurance claims, Hannah Yun was about as sure as anyone that hers would be successful. She’d bought a gold-plated “cancel for any reason” policy for a trip to South Korea. When her boyfriend proposed and she decided to call off the trip to start planning her wedding, she thought that collecting a check would be just a formality. Read full article > >

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The Navigator: Travel insurance claims can hinge on the tiniest details
Tags: boyfriend, full-article, insurance-companies, korea, merge, she-decided, she-thought, south-korea, twitter
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
In Toni Morrison’s novel, a traumatized soldier returns from the Korean War to his segregated hometown in Georgia.
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‘Home,’ a Novel by Toni Morrison
Tags: books and literature, border, from-the-korean, his-segregated, home (book), korea, morrison, morrison, toni, old, war
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
North Korea resumes work on a light water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear programme after months of inactivity, a US institute says.

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N Korea ‘resumes work’ on reactor
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Six senior monks in South Korea have offered to step down after a colleague leaked a video of them allegedly holding a private gambling session.

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VIDEO: Secret video shows monks gambling
Tags: colleague-leaked, korea, old, senior-monks, south, south-korea, step-down
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
North Koreans have more access than before to outside media, especially foreign and South Korean DVDs, says a US study.

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N Korea outside media access up
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
South Korea has stepped up customs inspections to stop capsules filled with powdered human flesh being smuggled into the country from China.

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VIDEO: Tackling the trade in human flesh pills
Tags: cap, China, country, flesh-being, korea, red, south-korea, the-country
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
South Korean firm Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphone, the successor to the Galaxy S2.

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VIDEO: Taking a look at the new Galaxy S3
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
South Korean firm Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphone, the successor to the Galaxy S2.

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VIDEO: Taking a look at the new Galaxy S3
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
The South Korean handset maker will unveil its new Android-based Galaxy phone at a London event later on Thursday.

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Samsung readies new Galaxy phone
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
The UN imposes sanctions on three North Korean state-owned companies in response to Pyongyang’s failed rocket launch last month.

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UN blacklists North Korean firms
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
China’s changing positions on Iran, Syria and North Korea, among others, are hailed as steps toward unity among the world’s major powers, but its motives are a mystery.
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U.S. Is Seeing Positive Signs From Chinese
Tags: changing-positions, International relations, korea, major-powers, north, north-korea, positions-on-iran, power, steps-toward, syria, united-states, world
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