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North Korea Threatens to 'Shatter' South

Pyongyang claims to have plutonium for
4 nuclear bombs

Jan 17, 09 5:21 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea threatened to “shatter” South Korea today as reports surfaced that Pyongyang may have enough plutonium stocks to produce at least four nuclear bombs, the Guardian reports. The North said rising hostilities with Seoul compelled it to take “an all-out confrontational posture” over a disputed maritime border... More »

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Barack Obama • North Korea • South Korea • Seoul • nuclear weapons • United States • Pyongyang • plutonium

Kim Jong-Il Names Youngest Son as Successor: Reports

Swiss-educated Jong-Un, about 25, said to be thoughtful, intelligent

Jan 15, 09 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il has picked his third—and, at about 25, thought to be his youngest—son, Jong-Un, as his successor in North Korea, Reuters reports. Though it has yet to be confirmed, officials said they have been instructed to spread the message, possibly to quell anxiety over who would lead... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • dictatorship • Kim Jong Il • succession • Kim Jong-Un

Ex-Prostitutes: 
S. Korea Pimped Us to US GIs

Seoul, US military encouraged a thriving sex trade for decades

Jan 8, 09 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Even as Seoul railed against Japan's WWII-era enslavement of "comfort women," it systematically pimped Korean women to US soldiers stationed there for decades after the Korean War, say a group of former prostitutes. Working with the US military, the South Korean government encouraged a thriving sex trade—giving... More »

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prostitution • South Korea • US military • Korean War • brothel • prostitute

 Lost Your Job? 
 Hyundai Will Buy 
 Your Car Back 

New incentive plan offers mostly risk-free ownership for a year

Jan 5, 09 7:01 PM CST
(Newser) - With rebates and other incentives failing to entice buyers, Hyundai is letting hard-luck owners return their cars, CNNMoney reports. Buyers who can't make payments because they got fired or went bankrupt are allowed to trade cars back with little or no obligation, within a year. "The goal is that... More »

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South Korea • unemployment • Hyundai • auto industry • job cuts • auto insurance

 Fido's Clone Just Ain't Fido 

Doggie behavior, physical traits can differ

Jan 1, 09 10:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Lou Hawthorne's canine cloning business is well on its way—with clients paying upwards of $130,000 to duplicate their pets—but the copies of his own beloved family dog have hardly replaced her. Clones Mira and MissyToo vary in size and color, and Hawthorne's mother—keeper of the original... More »

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South Korea • cloning • dog • cloned pets • animal cloning • pet owners • Lou Hawthorne

 Kim Jong-Il Cheered at Concert 

First major public appearance since stroke

Dec 29, 08 5:41 AM CST
(Newser) - A wildly cheering orchestra audience greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at his first major public appearance since his suspected stroke in August, reports Reuters. Western intelligence experts began speculating in September that Kim was seriously ill—or dying—when he failed to appear at an important military parade at... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • stroke • Kim Jong Il • KCNA • Unification Ministry • Kim Il-sung

Kim Jong-Il Back in
Public After Stroke 

North Korean leader appears recovered

Dec 22, 08 2:10 AM CST
(Newser) - US intelligence officials believe North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has recovered from a stroke he suffered last August, and has been making public appearances, Reuters reports. The 66-year-old dictator recently inspected army units and a ceramics factory, according to North Korea's state-controlled media. One appearance is believed to have taken... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • recovery • stroke • Kim Jong Il

(Newser) - A melee erupted in South Korea’s parliament today as opposition MPs attempted to break into a closed committee chamber, the BBC reports. Members of the ruling party had barricaded the door as they began the process of ratifying a controversial free trade agreement with the US. Opposition lawmakers used... More »

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South Korea • Parliament • free trade agreements • committee • opposition • brawl

23 Years in a North Korean Prison Camp

Escapee, born in prison, tells of routine, stunning torture

Dec 11, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - There are 14,431 North Korean defectors living in South Korea, but only one, Shin Dong-hyuk, who escaped from a Northern prison camp. In an interview with the Washington Post, Shin describes the daily horrors of life inside Kim Jong-Il's gulags, from fire torture to mutilation. He committed no crime—... More »

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North Korea • torture • South Korea • escape • Koreans • political prisoner • mutilation

 N. Korea 
 Clamps Down 
 on Border 

Major setback to years of economic, tourist ties between Koreas

Dec 1, 08 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea today made good on its threat to restrict border crossings from South Korea, severely hampering trade and ending tourism with its neighbor. The move, blocking large numbers of South Koreans and reducing border-crossing hours, is a protest against South Korea's new hardline president that negates years of hard-fought... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • border control • international relations • Kim Jong Il • President Obama

 N. Korea to Shut
 Border With South 

Pyongyang angered by South Korean government's actions

Nov 12, 08 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea says it will cut access to South Korea on Dec. 1, by closing the border and severing the sole civilian phone link between the two nations, the BBC reports. The North has grown increasingly hostile to the South since it elected President Lee Myung-bak, who promised to “... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • Pyongyang • reunification • Lee Myung-bak

Kim Jong-Il Had a 2nd Stroke:
Japanese TV

Report suggests that North Korea leader could be incapacitated

Nov 11, 08 6:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Uncertainty grew this morning about the health of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il after a Japanese television station reported that he has suffered a second stroke, Reuters reports. The claim came from a source connected to an American intelligence agency, but South Korean officials rejected the assertion. North Korea... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • US intelligence • stroke • Kim Jong Il

Brother-in-Law Pilots N. Korea for Ailing Kim

Head of secret police fills in as dictator heals from stroke: analysts

Nov 7, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il’s brother-in-law is running North Korea as the dictator recovers from a stroke, experts tell the Times of London. South Korean analysts say that while Kim is conscious and probably mobile, he remains weak. But Pyongyang appears to be functioning normally in the hands of Chang Sung Taek,... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • dictatorship • stroke • Kim Jong Il

 Korea Backs Monopoly 
 for Blind Masseurs  

Profession will remain reserved for the blind in South Korea

Oct 31, 08 5:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A South Korean court has upheld a law allowing only blind people to work as masseurs, the AP reports. The profession has been reserved for the blind for almost a century, but a legal battle had raged for years over the constitutionality of the rule. The perceived threat to their... More »

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South Korea • disability • blindness • masseuse • constitutionality • disability rights

 Kim Calls 
 Shots from 
 Hospital: 
 Japan 

Leader is sick, but able to run the country

Oct 28, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il is probably in the hospital but still calling the shots, Japanese PM Taro Aso says, citing intelligence reports and adding that if the North Korean leader were incoherent, "we would be seeing different developments." A Japanese professor returning from Pyongyang says North Koreans are calm, a... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Japan • Kim Jong Il

Suicide Prompts Uproar Over Cyber-Insults in S. Korea

Officials push for tougher punishments for 'cyber-terrorism'

Oct 26, 08 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The suicide of a popular actress is prompting South Korean officials to get tough with “cyber-terrorists,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Choi Jin-sil hanged herself this month after Internet rumors blamed her for the death of a fellow actor. “People who inflict cyber-terrorism must pay the appropriate... More »

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Internet • suicide • South Korea • crime • cyberterrorism • cyberbullying

 'Kimchi Deficit' Puts 
 Korea in a Pickle 

Spicy side dish's sales fall from cheaper competition

Oct 20, 08 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seoul is facing a ferment in its effort to promote South Korean cuisine around the world: declining exports of its national dish, kimchi. The country recorded a $77.3 million trade deficit of the spicy pickled cabbage and other veggies over the past 3 years, BBC reports. A government report... More »

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South Korea • food safety • trade deficit • kimchi • Korean food

North Korea Threatens
to Sever Ties With South

Calls South Korean government 'traitors'

Oct 16, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea is threatening to sever ties with South Korea in a war of words that has plunged relations between the partitioned neighbors to a new low, Reuters reports. North Korean officials are upset about hardline policies of South Korea's conservative government.  "If the traitors keep to the... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • disarmament • plutonium • Lee Myung-bak • state sponsored terrorism

 Asia Stocks Edge Up 

Aussie rate cut spurs recovery in some markets, Nikkei down to 5-year-low

Oct 7, 08 4:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asian stocks outside Japan made a modest recovery from yesterday's plunge after Australia slashed its interest rate a full percentage point to 6%, Reuters reports. Indexes in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore all edged up slightly. In Japan, the Nikkei was down 3% to a 5-year low after the Bank... More »

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Australia • South Korea • Taiwan • Singapore • Nikkei • Asian markets • Bank of Japan • interest rate cut

S. Korea's
Blind Masseurs Protest Threat
to Livelihood

Government opens profession to sighted

Sep 19, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Blind masseurs in South Korea are protesting what they see as the end of a way of life—and their livelihood, CNN reports. Police arrested 26 yesterday who gathered on a bridge and threatened to jump because the government is for the first time allowing sighted people to become licensed... More »

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South Korea • disability • blindness • masseuse • constitutionality • disability rights

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