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(Newser) - South Korean scientists have cloned a group of four female beagles that glow red under ultraviolet light, the AP reports. The researchers inserted fluorescent genes during the cloning process, an achievement that could lead to advances in human medicine and science. “What’s significant in this work is not... More »

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South Korea • genetic research • beagle • dog • animal cloning • ultraviolet light • fluorescence

North Korea Indicts 2 US Journos for 'Hostile Acts'

Women were working on refugee crisis story for Al Gore's Current TV

Apr 24, 09 1:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea has indicted two US journalists arrested last month for unspecified "hostile acts," reports the BBC. The women, reporting on the nation's refugee crisis for Al Gore's Current TV, will be tried "on the basis of the confirmed crimes committed by them," according to state-run... More »

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television • North Korea • Al Gore • South Korea • journalist • Kim Jong Il • Reporters Without Borders • reporters

 Two Koreas Agree 
 to Rare Meeting 

Will discuss shared factory complex amid international tension

Apr 19, 09 8:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Korea has agreed to North Korea's rare request for talks over a shared factory park, Reuters reports. South Korea will send 10 envoys north of the border Tuesday to discuss the Kaesong complex, where the North has been holding a South Korean worker for weeks after he derided its... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • nuclear program • factory • rocket • meeting • Kaesong

(Newser) - They arrive undernourished and barely able to read. They marvel at credit cards, can’t stomach pizza, and when the lights dim in movie theaters, they panic, fearing kidnappers will strike. Welcome to the world of the North Korean defector in South Korea, where an ever-growing wave of refugees is... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • refugee • defectors

Obama, S. Korea Prez Warn North Over Missile Launch

He and Lee will have 'united' response if Pyongyang fires rocket

Apr 2, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(AP) - Barack Obama and South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak agreed today on the need for a "stern, united" international response if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch. The two presidents met before today's round of talks at the G20 summit in London. Yesterday Obama told Chinese president... More »

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Barack Obama • North Korea • diplomacy • South Korea • rocket launchers • ballistic missile program • Lee Myung-bak • G20

 N. Korea Readies 
 Missile for Launch 

UN sanctions will derail disarmament talks: Pyongyang

Mar 25, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the date of a promised “satellite launch” nears, North Korea has placed a long-range ballistic missile on the launch pad used for earlier test firings, Reuters reports. South Korea, Japan, and the US plan to seek UN sanctions if the nuclear power goes forward with what analysts believe... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • Japan • United States • satellite • Kim Jong Il • UN sanctions • nuclear missiles • intercontinental ballistic missile • nuclear test

OPINION

A Strikeout In (and For) US, Classic Is World of Thrills

Tournament shows the promise of international baseball

Mar 24, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - After watching Japan best Korea in extra innings to defend its World Baseball Classic championship, Tom Verducci is excited about the tournament’s future, he writes for Sports Illustrated. In its second go-round, the tournament is a phenomenon worldwide. Most exciting though, is the way Japan won: with pragmatic fundamentals,... More »

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sports • South Korea • Japan • WBC • home run • baseball • World Baseball Classic

(Newser) - The sole supplier of condoms to Washington's overseas AIDS campaign is likely going out of business thanks to Asian competition, the Kansas City Star reports. The feds are close to signing contracts with companies in South Korea and China, which charge 2 cents per condom; Alabama-based Alatech charges five.... More »

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China • South Korea • Alabama • manufacturing • job cuts • HIV/AIDS • condoms • USAID

Despite Hunger, N. Korea Rejects US Food Aid

Pyongyang boots humanitarian groups ahead of rocket launch

Mar 18, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(AP) - North Korea will reject future US food assistance and kicked out five groups distributing American aid, a move that could make an already precarious humanitarian situation even worse, reports the AP. Pyongyang gave no reason for refusing the aid, according to the State Department. North Korea faces chronic food shortages... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • State Department • famine • Pyongyang • food aid

 S. Korean Ship 
 Missing After Collision 

Slammed into Panamanian vessel; 16 sailors disappear

Mar 10, 09 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A South Korean freighter remains missing after it collided with a Panamanian cargo ship off Japan early this morning, AFP reports. Japanese rescuers are searching for the vessel, which was carrying 16 sailors. “We believe the ship probably sank,” said a coast guard official. “We found an... More »

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South Korea • Japan • Panama • cargo ships • boat collision

North Korean Troops
on War Alert

Nuclear state prepares 'satellite' launch that US fears is missile test

Mar 9, 09 1:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea is warning that troops are on full combat alert as its southern neighbor preps for an annual military exercise with the US, BBC reports. The nuclear nation also threatened war if a "satellite" it plans to deploy soon is disturbed. South Korea and the US believe that... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • war • threats • Kim Jong Il • nuclear arsenal • nuclear missiles

(Newser) - Hapcheon residents think they live in the unluckiest town in earth. When Japan occupied the tiny South Korean farming community during World War II, it sent locals to work in munitions factories—in Hiroshima. Thousands of Hapcheon residents died instantly when the bomb dropped. The rest were shunned when they... More »

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South Korea • Japan • Hiroshima • lawsuit • war reparations

South Korea Slams North's 'Inhumane' Flight Threat

Pyongyang condemned for warning it can no longer guarantee safety for civilian aircraft

Mar 6, 09 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - South Korea has called on North Korea to withdraw an apparent threat to passenger jets, the Times of London reports. Flights have had to be diverted since North Korea, enraged by upcoming US-South Korea military exercises, warned yesterday that it could no longer guarantee the safety of civilian aircraft—a... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • aviation • Korean Air • aircraft • military exercises

 North Korea Threatens 
 Civilian Flights 

South Korean-US military exercise rattles Pyongyang

Mar 5, 09 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian flights near its airspace in light of a joint US-South Korean military exercise, the Telegraph reports. The annual exercise, which South Korea and the US say is purely defensive, is for next week. Pyongyang warned that it could not... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Kim Jong Il • civilians • military exercises • airspace violation • Lee Myung Bak

 North Korea Prepares 
 'Satellite' Launch 

Neighbors believe country is readying test of long-range missile

Feb 24, 09 4:18 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea’s announcement today that it is preparing to launch an "experimental communications satellite" on one of its rockets has raised fears that a long-range missile test is imminent, CNN reports. US and South Korean officials, citing intelligence reports, believe that the country is preparing to launch a... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • missile • satellite

analysis

 In Asia, Clinton's 
 on a Mission to Listen 

Secretary of State right at home on 'world stage'

Feb 20, 09 3:06 PM CST
(Newser) - On her trip to China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, Hillary Clinton is making the most of long experience and enthusiastic crowds, the Washington Post reports. The secretary of state is on a listening tour, aiming to rehab the country's image. “There is a hunger for the United States... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • Indonesia • South Korea • Japan • Asia • secretary of State • tour • Obama administration • Obama Cabinet

Clinton Warns North Korea, Names Special Envoy

Special envoy for North Korea named

Feb 20, 09 6:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton warned an increasingly belligerent North Korea to cease its "provocative and unhelpful" threats toward the South today, the AP reports. In a Seoul press conference, the secretary of state named former US ambassador to South Korea Stephen Bosworth as special envoy for North Korea and said he... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • diplomacy • South Korea • Asia • Kim Jong Il • special envoy

Clinton Tells N. Korea to Scrap Nukes for Peace Deal

Obama administration willing to aim for permanent peace

Feb 14, 09 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Before heading to Asia tomorrow on her first trip as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton sent a clear message to North Korea: Scrap the nukes, drop the war talk, and reap the benefits of better relations with the US, CNN reports. Pyongyang's nuclear program is “the most acute challenge... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • South Korea • Asia • nuclear program • nuclear disarmament

 Tensions Flare 
 as N. Korea 
 Axes Pacts 
 With South 

Risk of border skirmishes looms

Jan 30, 09 2:14 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea is unilaterally scrapping all agreements with South Korea as political and military tensions mount between the rival neighbors. The North Koreans are even repudiating the 1953 truce which ended the Korean war, reports the New York Times. Analysts see the move as a tactic to grab the attention... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • nuclear weapons • Lee Myung Bak • Kim Jung Il • Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea

 Worldwide Downturn 
 Speeds Up Alarmingly 

Analysts don't expect recovery in 2009

Jan 24, 09 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - The global economy is in a faster decline than economists predicted only weeks ago, as the bursting of the biggest-ever real-estate bubble hits real economies in Europe and Asia, killing millions of jobs and shutting businesses, the Washington Post reports. Britain just posted its biggest quarterly slump since 1980, while... More »

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China • South Korea • Germany • Europe • world economy • recession • Britain • weakening economy • downturn • financial crisis

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