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North Korea Is Willing to Discuss Giving Up Nuclear Weapons, South Says
The North “clearly stated its willingness to denuclearize,” South Korea said after talks in Pyongyang. President Trump welcomed what he called “possible progress.”
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How a plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder
Unit 684 was supposed to be a top-secret assassination squad tasked with attacking the residence of North Korea's then leader Kim Il Sung. But the 1968 experiment to create a crack team of would-be assassins ended in disaster.
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Alarm grows as norovirus outbreak explodes at Olympics; cases quadruple in days
From Tuesday to Thursday night, cases of the highly infectious bug leapt from 32 to 128.
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Panic as fire breaks out near Gangneung Winter Olympics athletes' village
A FIRE broke out close to the athlete’s village at the South Korea Olympic Games. Social media pictures show smoke pouring from an under-construction apartment block in Gangneung. Journalists…
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Confronting Korea’s Censored Discourse on Comfort Women
Controversy over the comfort women is partly rooted in a Manichean worldview dividing people into innocents and oppressors. By Joseph Yi.
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The bloody rise and shocking fall of a US spymaster in Cold War Korea
Blaine Harden's book about Donald Nichols, 'King of Spies,' is a rip-roaring exposé of US black ops during the 1940s and 50s. It is not for the faint of heart. By Andrew Salmon.
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S Korea offers high-level talks with North
The offer of talks next week comes after the North said it might send a delegation to the Olympic Games.
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Seven Reasons Why Putting U.S. Nukes Back in South Korea Is a Terrible Idea
Here are seven reasons why the United States should not seek to deploy nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula. By By Jon Wolfsthal, Toby Dalton.
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This is how nuclear war with North Korea would unfold
In one all-too-plausible worst-case scenario, millions die from mistakes and a tweet.
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For Beijing, the greatest threat to China’s national security is not the Kim regime: it is the US
China is reluctant to be more active in dealing with Pyongyang for fear of consolidating the US take over in the region. By Anny Boc.
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Korean banks sue Southern California computer parts retailer Newegg, alleging 'Ponzi scheme'
The Southern California computer parts retailer Newegg is facing a lawsuit for allegedly defrauding Korean banks
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South Korea Prepares to Tax Bitcoin Use
South Korea is preparing to tax bitcoin use after the cryptocurrency's trading volume skyrocketed past that of Kosdaq. Han Seung-hee, the commissioner of the country's National Tax Service, told lawmakers this weekend that the issue of how to best tax cryptocurrencies is being discussed, including the areas of capital gains tax, the VAT, and gift tax.
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North Korea just might be able to win a war, if it begins with an EMP in Tokyo
If it can cripple more than 120 million people in Japan, North Korea will have an opportunity to hit South Korea while America is distracted.
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They Chose China
In this feature documentary, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera at the astonishing story of 21 American soldiers who opted to stay in China after the Korean War ended in 1954. Back home in the United States, McCarthyism was at its height and many Americans believed these men were brainwashed by Chinese communists. But what really happened? Using never-before-seen footage from the Chinese camps and interviews with former PoWs and their families, They Chose China tells the fascinating stories of these forgotten American dissidents.
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The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war.” By Thomas Powell.
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A Murderous History of Korea
“The idea that North Koreans generally have of Americans may be strange, but I must say, having lived in the USA around the end of the Korean War, that nothing can equal the stupidity and sadism of the combat imagery that went into circulation at the time. ‘The Reds burn, roast and toast.’” — Chris Marker. By Bruce Cumings.
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NPR Can’t Help Hyping North Korean Threat
The construction of foreign “threats” benefits a national government hungry for legitimacy—and news organizations hungry for an audience. By Glen Frieden.
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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
Media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system omit that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor. By Adam Johnson.
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The Handmaiden review – outrageous thriller drenched with eroticism
Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, relocated to 1930s Korea, is an erotic triumph – with a whiplash twist. By Peter Bradshaw.
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South Korean court to decide whether to arrest ousted president Park
A South Korean court will hold a hearing on Thursday to decide whether to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye and hold her in a cell for up to 20 days while she is investigated on charges of taking bribes and abusing presidential power.
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