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latest news & developmentsSouth Korea’s top prosecutor quits after Roh death
South Korea’s chief prosecutor quit on Thursday to take responsibility for leading a graft probe into former president Roh Moo-hyun.
South Korea’s former leader dies in apparent suicide
South Korea’s former president Roh Moo-hyun appears to have jumped to his death in the mountains near his home on Saturday, a top aide said.
South Korean historic landmark collapses after blaze
South Koreans mourned the loss of a 600-year-old building designated as the nation’s top cultural landmark, which collapsed in ruins early on Monday after catching fire. Police…
Lee coasts to South Korea poll victory
Right-wing businessman Lee Myung-bak won South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide on Wednesday with his promises to make voters better off and stand up to North Korea,…
South Korea likely to vote for businessman president
South Koreans went to the polls on Wednesday expected to choose as president a former CEO vowing to knock the economy into shape and stand up to the North, but whose authority…
Korea deal tests Kim Jong-il’s commitment
South Korean media questioned on Friday whether the two Koreas’ summit pledge to seek a formal end to their 1950 to 1953 war could be realised given Pyongyang’s record of broken…
The palace of largesse
If it achieves nothing else, the visit by the South Korean President, Roh Moo-hyun, will at least make its mark on one of North Korea’s most spectacular and unusual tourist…
The greatest propaganda show on earth
It has been called the greatest show on earth, an unparalleled propaganda spectacle and a display of indoctrination like no other. The Arirang ”Mass Games”, which involves 100…
Bush offers North Korea peace deal, scolds Burma
United States President George Bush said on Friday the United States would be willing to consider a peace treaty with North Korea if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.…
N Korea ‘to be taken off US terrorism list’
The United States has agreed to lift sanctions against North Korea and remove it from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, the foreign ministry in Pyongyang announced on…
Ex-hostages say Taliban beat them
Some of the South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage by Afghanistan’s Taliban said they were beaten for refusing to convert to Islam and protecting female captives, a…
Climate, trade top Bush’s agenda at Apec summit
United States President George Bush hopes to spur momentum for a world trade pact and a global target on climate change at this week’s Asia-Pacific summit but the Iraq debate at…
Pyongyang’s nuclear dividend
Tank traps, landmines and checkpoint barriers flank the North Korean road to Panmunjom, the last frontier of the Cold War. For more than half a century, this small village in the…