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    ‘Samurai warriors’ coming to Dokdo!

    This and other scenarios may not be as remote as once thought What if Japan’s “samurai warriors” tried to land on Dokdo? Japanese ultra right-wing nationalists have already landed on internationally disputed islands. At a time when Tokyo is trying to dispute Seoul’s sovereignty over Dokdo, the possibility can’t be…

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    Lee consoles late Zenawi’s wife

    President Lee Myung-bak expressed his deep condolences over the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a handwritten letter delivered to his grieving wife Azeb Mesfin through Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan. The foreign minister attended the late leader’s funeral Sunday (local time) to console the bereaved family. Meles, who…

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    Moon wins 6th straight primary

    Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) won a primary race in Incheon, Sunday, his sixth straight victory. Despite the winning streak, the former presidential chief of staff under the former Roh Moo-hyun government may need to compete in a run-off election after the DUP primaries…

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    Seoul dismisses Tokyo’s ICJ proposal over Dokdo

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade sent a diplomatic document to Japan, Thursday, dismissing the latter’s proposal to take the issue of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The government sent the document through the Japanese Embassy in Seoul. “We’ve sent a…

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  • 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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