This is the second major attack on South Korean virtual currency exchanges in just 10 days
Trump rattled the region on Thursday by cancelling a planned June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore, citing "open hostility" from Pyongyang
The new tariffs will cause the loss of about 23 000 American jobs and the cancellation or delay of billions of dollars in solar investment
The Olympics torch arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a four-day relay throughout the capital city
North Korea has delayed reunions of families separated by the Korean War due to “unidentified conservatives in Seoul seeking confrontation”.
In a chicken coop for the Seoul art-appreciation set, Eamon Allan finds birds of a certain feather flock together, even when they’re ceramic.
South Korea says computers in the North were used for an onslaught that wiped hard drives on PCs at TV stations and disrupted banks.
US President Barack Obama has urged China to use its influence to stop North Korea’s "bad behaviour" in a nuclear standoff with the West.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea appears to be making an orderly transition after the death of Kim Jong-il last week, but the risk of collapse is higher than before.
North Korea’s new young leader Kim Jong-un will have to share power with an uncle and the military after the death of his father Kim Jong-il.
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/ 20 December 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US hopes the new North Korean leadership chooses to guide their nation onto the path of peace.
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/ 20 December 2011
The body of North Korea’s long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin on Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas.
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/ 20 December 2011
Reunification could lift millions of North Koreans out of poverty and boost average income by at least tenfold. But it would probably slow South Korea
North Korea and the US will hold new talks in Geneva to discuss ways to restart regional talks on disabling North Korea nuclear weapons programme.
North Korea on Tuesday rejected South Korea’s plea to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul’s military and mobile communications.
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/ 9 February 2011
South Korea agreed on Wednesday to hold talks with North Korea on humanitarian issues between the rivals.
South Korea’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that North Korea’s firing of artillery shells was a clear violation of an armistice.
Leaders will agree to set vague "indicative guidelines" measuring economic imbalances at Friday’s summit but leave details to be hammered out in 2011.
The world’s 20 biggest rich and emerging economies intensified a war of words hours before the start of the G20 summit on Thursday.
Bad blood between the world’s 20 biggest rich and emerging nations has spilled over ahead of summit talks starting on Thursday.
South Korea accused the reclusive North on Thursday of torpedoing one of its warships, heightening tension in the region.
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/ 22 January 2010
It built its economy on ships, steel and semi-conductors, but now South Korea is pushing a new growth engine.
North Korea put its military on combat alert on Monday as United States and South Korean troops began a major joint exercise.
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/ 19 February 2009
North Korea said on Thursday it was ready for war with the South, just hours before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to arrive in Seoul.
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/ 16 February 2009
North Korea said on Monday it had the right to launch its longest-range missile, raising tensions hours before Hillary Clinton arrives in the region.
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/ 13 January 2009
South Korean officials will visit North Korea on Thursday to check Pyongyang’s progress in keeping to an international disarmament deal.
South Korea to invest in green projects in an effort to boost its slowing economy and create new jobs
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/ 21 November 2008
South Korea is hoping to turn an undeveloped stretch of Madagascar into a maize-production centre.
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 again runs the risk of outright famine, ten years after up to one million of its people died of starvation, a leading United States research institute said on Wednesday. ”The country is in its most precarious situation since the end of the famine a decade ago,” said Peterson Institute senior fellow Marcus Noland.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has voiced its concern to the Chinese ambassador in Seoul over violent incidents during the Olympic torch relay in the capital, and a police investigation is under way, an official said on Tuesday. South Korean newspapers ran angry editorials denouncing Chinese students who hurled rocks at groups criticising Beijing.
North Koreans waved flags, plastic flowers and danced in the streets of Pyongyang to welcome the Olympic torch on Monday after the destitute state had promised its main benefactor China an ”astonishing” show. The global torch relay ahead of the Beijing Games in August has prompted protests against China’s rights record in Tibet.