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BBC News
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South Korea's incoming president wants to scrap a ministry handling relations with North Korea, his aides say.
Lee Myung-bak, who takes office on 25 February, will merge the Unification Ministry with the Foreign Ministry.
Four other ministries are b..
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BBC News
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South Korea's ruling party candidate, Chung Dong-young has conceded victory in the country's presidential election.
Exit polls show that Lee Myung-bak, the candidate for the conservative GNP party, has won more than 50% of the vote, beating UNDP candid..
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MSNBC
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North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a N..
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CNN
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Thousands of tons of oil spilled into the Yellow Sea off the western coast of South Korea Friday after an oil tanker collided with a barge carrying a crane, the Maritime Ministry of Korea reported. About 10,000 tons of oil gushed out of the Hebei Spirit a..
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BBC News
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Flooding caused by heavy rain has left hundreds of people dead or missing in North Korea, state media has reported.
The rain had flooded tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, official news agency KCNA said...
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BBC News
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North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says.
IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays..
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FOX News
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Something like open warfare has broken out between U.S. diplomats at the United Nations and top officials of the controversy-ridden United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency.
At bottom, the issue involves UNDP operat..
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BBC News
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An American delegation led by the governor of New Mexico and former ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson, is leaving shortly for North Korea.
Mr Richardson said he aims to secure the release of remains of US servicemen killed in the Korean war in the..
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Yahoo News
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The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions as six-party talks looked likely to straggle into an extra day. The initially promising session of talks falte..
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Globe and Mail
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The United States wants the Canadian Navy's help patrolling the high seas and searching cargo vessels for illicit nuclear material going to or from North Korea...
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SF Gate
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The top U.S. and South Korean trade envoys broke off talks without resolving a crisis over the resumption of American beef shipments that has shaken South Korea's pro-U.S. government.
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who flew into Washington..
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BBC News
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Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals.
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift..
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CNN
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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in North Korea Monday to perform a historic concert in the secretive communist nation's capital. When the tour was announced in December, orchestra president and executive director Zarin Mehta billed it as "a ma..
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BBC News
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At least 27 people have died and about a dozen are reported missing after a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
Hundreds of firefighters have been drafted in to battle the blaze in Icheon, 80km (50 miles) south of the capital, Seoul.
Thick, toxic sm..
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BBC News
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The president-elect of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, says he will press North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.
Such a move was a prerequisite for full economic co-operation between North and South, he said, adding that Pyongyang must improve its human r..
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BBC News
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The first regular rail service for more than 50 years has begun operating across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.
The flower-strewn cargo train, carrying raw materials for an industrial zone, left South Korea early in the mor..
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SF Gate
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Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea. It has blackened once-scenic beaches, coated birds and oysters in sludge and driven away tourists with its..
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MSNBC
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A crane-carrying vessel collided with an oil tanker off of South Korea’s west coast on Friday, causing more than 66,000 barrels of crude oil to spill in what was believed to be South Korea’s largest offshore oil leak, officials said.
Officials at t..
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MSNBC
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In a rare move, President Bush has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official news agency said Thursday without giving further details about the message.
US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill delivered the letter to North Kore..
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BBC News
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The defence ministers of North and South Korea have begun talks in Pyongyang aimed at reducing tension along the disputed border.
They are also expected to discuss a joint fishing area in the Yellow Sea to end gun battles over fishing rights.
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