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South Korea on Monday ignored an offer by the North to resume cross border tours, suspended since a housewife was shot dead by soldiers in 2008, because it did not come through official channels. The offer came last week when Hyun Jung-Eun, head of Seoul's...
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According to the report, the tubular animal was the first organism with skeletal structure on Earth. It was an elliptic tube-shape animal with nothing in abdomen. The researchers said they found fossils of primitive seaweeds and primitive jellyfish belonging...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has inspected the nation's security force headquarters, state media said on Sunday, in what Seoul media say is a bid to further tighten his control on society. Kim expressed "great satisfaction" over his undated visit to...
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Korea has apologised for unleashing dam water, causing floods downstream that were blamed for the deaths of six South Koreans who had been camping and fishing. Water was released without warning into the Imjin river last month.
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North Korea, under pressure to return to the six-nation talks on its denuclearization, said Monday Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit Pyongyang next week. The announcement on the two-day trip, to begin Sunday, was made by the state-run Korean Central...
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Suddenly, North Korea's peace offensive has exploded in a mushroom cloud with word from Pyongyang that the North's nuclear wizards are about to enter "the completion stage" of their program to develop nuclear warheads with highly enriched uranium. Pyongyang...
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The US has long suspected the North has a secret programme to enrich uranium for possible use in nuclear weapons – but officials add that they have little idea of how extensive it is. Many experts maintain that Pyongyang has not developed anything near...
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North Korean defectors launch large balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea near the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas in Ganghwa, about 60 km northwest of Seoul, on July 3, 2009. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images) When I was...
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But it has hinted it was still open to some form of dialogue. "There is a specific and reserved form of dialogue that can address the current situation," state media quoted a foreign ministry statement. The note follows an exchange of insults between...
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The diplomat, who spoke to reporters anonymously, said five individuals, five firms and two weapons-related items would be subject to sanctions...A UN resolution in June toughened sanctions against North Korea after it conducted nuclear and missile tests.
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