South Korean officials say they are building a new facility to hold some of the 3,000 North Koreans who arrive in the country each year.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday it will free an American detained for reportedly proselytizing after a visiting U.S. official expressed regret. Eddie Jun was arrested in November and accused of committing a serious crime against North Korea, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said. Pyongyang didn’t provide details about the alleged crime, but South Korean press reports say Jun, a Korean-American with business interests in North Korea, was accused of spreading Christianity. Read full article > >

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North Korea says it’s freeing American detained since November following US envoy visit

The Chinese and South Korean prime ministers show support for Japan quake victims in the zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Leaders meet Japan quake victims

Chinese and South Korean leaders will start a visit to Japan by touring Fukushima prefecture, where a nuclear plant was damaged by the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Leaders to visit Japan quake zone

SEOUL — When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton landed here Saturday night, she had a whole list of issues she wanted to talk over with South Korean officials, including a pending free-trade agreement and disaster relief for their mutual ally Japan.

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China formally invites Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korea’s leader and his likely heir, to visit, South Korean sources say.

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A group of Japanese and South Korean firms are to buy a 15% stake in a Brazilian company that mines a rare earth metal.

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Asia firms strike rare earth deal

Five Somali men suspected of hijacking a South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea face attempted murder charges.

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S Korea charges Somali ‘pirates’

North and South Korea held low-level talks Tuesday, the first official sit-down between the two nations since the November shelling of a South Korean island that killed four people. Although the meetings were meant to prepare for more substantial…

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India’s environment ministry gives conditional approval to South Korean company Posco’s plan to build a steel plant in the eastern state of Orissa.

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India ‘approves’ mega steel deal

Five Somali men suspected of hijacking a South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea are flown to Seoul to face possible criminal charges.

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Somali ‘pirates’ flown to Seoul

South Korean special forces staged a dramatic pre-dawn rescue of 21 seamen who had been hijacked by Somali pirates. Military commandos boarded the vessel owned by Korean chemical carrier Samho Jewelry under the cover of darkness and went through the…

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South Korea Storms Pirate Ship

South Korean pro-reunification pastor Han Sang-ryol is jailed for five years over an unauthorised trip to North Korea.

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S Korean pastor jailed over trip

Dramatic pictures show the South Korean Coast Guard rescuing 15 people from a capsized ferry off the southwest coast.

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S Koreans rescued from capsized ferry

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak tells his nation it must unite to survive in the face of military aggression from the North.

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Unite to survive, S Koreans told