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Deconstructing territorial disputes from outsider’s perspective
* Editor’s note: As the security tension is hightening in East Asia, Korean and international journalists and scholars gathered on Feb. 28 at a seminar hosted by the Asia Journalist Association and discussed the “Asian media’s role for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes.” Following is the presentation at the seminar by Michael…
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DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un inspects a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands
Photo released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands in DPRK. Kim Jong Un said on Thursday that the DPRK military was ready to fight an…
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Pedestrians walk in Tokyo as 0.2 percent economic growth reported
Pedestrians walk on the crosswalk in Tokyo, Japan, on March 8, 2013. The Japanese economy expanded at an annualized rate of 0.2 percent in the three months through December in inflation-adjusted terms, up from preliminary data, the government data showed Friday. <Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki>
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‘Al Hilal’ Magazine and ‘The AsiaN’ sign a cultural partnership agreement
The Korean future news network ‘The AsiaN’ and the Egyptian magazine ‘Al Hilal’ signed a cultural partnership agreement to support the cooperation between the two institutions in the fields of culture and media. On the Korean side, Mr Lee Sang Ki, the founding president of the Asia Journalist Association (AJA)…
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A group of people in Seoul stage a protest opposing UN saction against NK
South Korean protesters hold signs during a press conference denouncing the UN’s new sanction against North Korea, and the annual joint military exercises, dubbed Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, South Korea and the United States joint military excercise, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 8, 2013.…
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East Asia
People on bicycles wear half sleeve shirts as it gets hot in Chongqing, China
People ride on Nanbin street in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, March 7, 2013. The highest temperature rose to 28 degrees Celsius in Chongqing on Thursday. <Xinhua/Chen Cheng>
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Be wary of the ‘Seikanron’ descendants
Joint Project between the Northeast Asian History Foundation and The AsiaN *Editor’s Note: Security in East Asia is swaying in a rough sea. North Korea’s nuclear crisis has been highly elated amid existing territorial disputes and deep-rooted conflicts between nations in the region. South Korea, China and Japan, the countries…
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Journalists inspect Fukushima nuclear power plant harmed by tsunami
Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks are escorted by TEPCO employees while walking near the building housing the plant’s No. 4 reactor, center, and an under construction foundation which will store the reactor’s melted fuel rods at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in…
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NK soldiers under training amid a threat to cancel 1953 cease-fire in Pyongyang
Soldiers of Kim Il Sung Military University perform military training on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea’s military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and Pyongyang as the United Nations moves to impose punishing…
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Kimono-clad models help Tokyo win its bid to host the 2020 Olympics
Kimono-clad models wait for the arrival of International Olympic Committee Vice President Craig Reedie of Britain at the Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The IOC’s evaluation commission is currently on a four-day inspection of Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Shizuo Kambayashi>
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