• Korean embassy in Kenya hit for poor services

    Koreans living in Kenya are frustrated with the Korean Embassy for its alleged poor consular services, saying staff there are not cooperative and slow to respond to their petitions. A 55-year-old Korean man who has run a small business in the African country for 20 years expressed his distrust in…

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  • NK ramps up rhetoric on ROK-US drills

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected another frontline military unit, Pyongyang said Tuesday as the regime increased its tough talk against the ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills. Kim ordered troops of the (North) Korean People’s Army large combined unit 313 on the eastern border to “deal prompt deadly blows”…

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    UN chief to meet N. Korea official in Iran

    U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he will meet with North Korea’s ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam this week during the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Iran and discuss inter-Korean relations. Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, said he would engage in the talks in his capacity…

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    Ex-Supreme Court justice joins Park camp

    Rep. Park Geun-hye, the ruling Saenuri Party presidential candidate, appointed Ahn Dae-hee, a former Supreme Court justice, to head a committee for political reform, Monday. The current leading presidential candidate also appointed the heads and members of three other key committees within her camp. Kim Jong-in, a former lawmaker and…

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    ‘Noda’s comfort women remarks wrong’

    Seoul rejected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s remarks made Monday that there was no evidence indicating that the Japanese military enforced sexual slavery during World War II. A foreign ministry official told reporters that wartime sex slaves were a historical fact that cannot be denied, expressing regret over the Japanese…

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  • Survey result: Majority of Koreans view Lee’s visit to Dokdo positively

    Some 26 percent of those polled to assess President Lee Myung-bak’s duty performance in the third week of August (13th – 17th) were learned to have assessed positively. It was 6 percent higher than that of the positive repliers in previous week, according to recent survey conducted by Gallup Korea. The…

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  • US fence-sitting on Dokdo row

    NEW YORK — Korea-Japan relations are getting rockier by the day, with stories about the bilateral standoff starting to take up more space, more often in U.S. print, television and online news. Not surprisingly, Washington is sitting on the fence over the intensifying territorial feud between its two most important…

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    ‘Takeshima doesn’t exist’

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade criticized the foreign minister of Japan Thursday for his remarks on Dokdo made a day earlier in the Diet, demanding the neighboring country stop its diplomatic provocation over the islets’ sovereignty. Speaking in a regular briefing, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tae-young demanded Koichiro…

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    Ban gaining independence

    Bucking pressure from the United States and Israel, U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will attend the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Iran next week, his office said Thursday. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Ban would participate in the Aug. 29-31 talks in Tehran because he takes “seriously” the U.N. responsibility to…

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    NK victims of human trafficking harbor hatred toward Chinese

    Many North Korean refugees face a variety of ordeals, including human trafficking, in the northeastern region of China before setting foot in South Korea for freedom and a life free of fear. Traumatic memories haunt them every day even after they find shelter in the South, causing them to bear…

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