A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog’s owner said on Wednesday. Cloned foetuses from the black labrador retriever named Marine were last month implanted into a surrogate mother dog.
North Korea announced on Thursday it was suspending all dialogue with South Korea after failing to win an apology for remarks by a Seoul general, its toughest action in a week of growing cross-border tensions. The communist state’s Korean Central News Agency blamed Seoul for the North’s decision to suspend dialogue and contacts.
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/ 7 February 2007
Nuclear-armed North Korea is notorious for selling its missiles overseas, but the hard-line communist state also has a more improbable export — cute cartoon figures. South Korean experts say the North’s animated movie industry brings the isolated country both precious hard currency and access to global IT expertise.
North Korea on Wednesday offered the United States talks on its missile launch plans, indicating it might put off a flight test that has raised tension and drawn sharp international warnings. The number two diplomat at North Korea’s United Nations mission said the secretive state was open to talks with Washington, where there were reports that the US missile defence shield had been activated.
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/ 16 February 2006
North Korea on Thursday marked the 64th birthday of leader Kim Jong-Il with a bout of sabre-rattling and a warning that a nuclear stand-off will never be settled unless Washington makes concessions. Pyongyang’s state media said celebrations included exhibitions, performances, seminars, parades and a march to Mount Paikdu.
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/ 12 January 2006
South Korea’s discredited cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk on Thursday admitted his research into stem cells was faked but claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy — the latest twist in his stunning fall from grace. As the 52-year-old Hwang delivered a rambling apology to the media, criminal investigators raided his Seoul home and laboratory.
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/ 10 January 2006
Stem cell-therapy remains the best long-term hope for suffers of many incurable diseases despite the medical hoax perpetrated by South Korea’s researcher Hwang Woo-Suk, analysts said on Tuesday. A panel of experts found earlier on Tuesday that Hwang (52) had faked his entire body of research on stem cells which won him international acclaim and millions of dollars in funding.
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/ 20 December 2005
North Korea announced on Tuesday it intended to build an unspecified number of light-water reactors, saying the United States had reduced a 1994 deal on mothballing nuclear power plants to a ”dead document.” Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said that the Stalinist regime would also resume the construction of two graphite moderated reactors frozen under the 1994 accord.
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/ 18 November 2005
Anti-American protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in the streets of the southern South Korean port city of Busan on Friday as thousands of people rallied against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in the city. Violence erupted as police barricaded roads and trained water cannons on activists.
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/ 28 September 2005
The Samsung group was in hot water on Wednesday after its patriarch was told to appear before South Korea’s Parliament. The parliamentary move coincided with an attack by President Roh Moo-Hyun, who charged the group is seeking to sidestep a government drive for corporate governance reform.