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S. Korea calls for UN response against NK’s rocket launch
Korea on Friday called for the United Nations Security Council to respond to North Korea’s defiant long-range rocket launch, even though the launch appears to have failed. “Regardless of success or failure, we urge the U.N. Security Council to take action against North Korea’s rocket launch,” said a senior official…
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NK rocket crashes into sea shortly after launch
North Korea defiantly fired off a long-range rocket Friday, but the three-stage craft crashed in pieces into the sea shortly after takeoff, South Korean officials said. The launch is expected to draw international condemnation as it violated a U.N. resolution that bans the communist nation from any ballistic missile activity…
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NK says its satellite failed to enter orbit
North Korea said Friday its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite failed to enter orbit after its launch aboard a long-range rocket. The North said its “scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch, without elaborating. Seoul’s…
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North Korean leader gets top party post
North Korea named leader Kim Jong-un as first secretary of the ruling Worker’s Party, Wednesday, a new title that appears to be the top party post, while his late father was anointed as “Eternal General Secretary.” The moves came during a special party conference, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency…
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Change or status quo?
Interpretation differs by partisan line Millions of voters cast their ballots in the 2012 National Assembly elections, Wednesday. It was a collective effort to shape the future of the nation. A series of pre-election surveys conducted by media outlets have predicted the result to be on a knife edge and…
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What will be changed after the election?
The just-ended National Assembly election has elected a total of 300 new legislators. The election will have great significance in the Korean politics. First of all, the South-North relation is expected to improve markedly in any form. What attract people’s attention would be whether the major policies of the Lee Myung-bak regime will be changed…
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Asian media’s views toward the South Korean general election
A total of 300 new members of representatives are to be elected in the 19th general election. Five-year term presidential election is also scheduled to be held at the end of this year. The four-year term parliamentary election and the presidential election are set to held in the same year…
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“Improved South-North relation crucial for peace in Asia”
U.S. Special Representative for North Korean Affairs Glyn Davies, left, listens to South Korean nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam during their joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. <Photo=AP/Newsis> Most of the candidates running for the 19th general election, scheduled to take place…
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Top UN officials warn against growing human trafficking
*Editor’s note: High-ranking UN officials including Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon delivered speeches at the special General Assembly meeting held Tuesday (Apr. 3, 2012) in New York to raise the awareness among the members nations about the seriousness of the human trafficking. The AsiaN excerpted the story from the UN home page. …
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North Koreans eager to learn int’l business norms
If North Korea, as in the eyes of some casual observers, is totally sealed off from the outside world, it would follow that there would be little interest there in, say, the intricacies of the global economy. But according to Choson Exchange (CE), a Singapore-based non-profit group that runs business…
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