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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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South Koreans in Washington to Brief on Talks with North Korean Leader
Two senior South Korean officials arrived in the United States on Thursday to brief U.S. officials on their meeting this week with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Pyongyang's apparent willingness to discuss denuclearization with Washington.
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S. Korea approves fund to support N. Korea's Paralympic participation
South Korea approved a plan to use a government fund to financially support North Korea's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, the unification ministry said Friday. The government deliberative committee for the inter-Korean cooperation fund approved some 130 million won (US$121,370) in spending from the government budget for inter-Korean cooperation to pay the Paralympic bills for Pyongyang, the ministry said.
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Peace in Our Time on the Korean Peninsula?
Using negotiations to divide Washington and Seoul and gain time to continue missile and nuclear development are time-honored DPRK strategies. By Doug Bandow.
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US and South Korea announce start date for annual military exercises
The US said Monday that its major "Foal Eagle and Key Resolve" annual military exercises with South Korea will start April 1, an announcement that comes as President Donald Trump readies for a potential major summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which could happen as early as May.
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Overworked staff forced to shut computers
The government in South Korea's capital is introducing a new initiative to force its employees to leave work on time - by powering down all their computers at 20:00 on Fridays. It says it is trying to stop a "culture of working overtime". South Korea has some of the longest working hours in the world.
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Ivanka Trump Now Sitting in as Secretary of State
Ivanka Trump will sit in for now-fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a meeting with the South Korean Foreign Minister.
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North and South Korea agree — their leaders will hold a summit meeting on April 27 in the DMZ
The third summit ever between the Koreas could prove significant in the global diplomatic push to resolve the standoff over the North's nuclear program.
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South Koreans Will Be Able to Pay in Cryptocurrency at Over 6,000 Stores
Bithumb is partnering with Korea Pay Services to let over 6,000 retail outlets accept cryptocurrency payments for goods and services.
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North Korea makes rare apology for banning press from K-pop concert
North Korea has issued a rare apology to a group of South Korean journalists over access to a K-pop concert attended by Kim Jong-un. While apologies from the North are highly unusual, with criticism often deflected and blamed on the US and its allies, a mea culpa from a senior official over press freedom is almost unimaginable.
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American banned from Korean basketball for being ‘too tall’
SOUTH KOREA’S professional basketball league has kicked out a US national because he is deemed “too tall” under new regulations. The Korean Basketball League (KBL) announced last week that as of next season, foreign players can be no taller than 2 metres. The league believes that by imposing height restrictions it will encourage teams to recruit players rather than “just tall ones”, reported The Korea Times.
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South Korea's 'yogurt ladies' ride motorized fridges to bring your dairy fix
The fleet of delivery ladies used to have to drag along heavy carts all day.
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North and South Korea reportedly set to announce an official end to war
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official. Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation.
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North and South Korea reportedly set to announce an official end to war
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the ongoing military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.
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North Korea wants total denuclearisation, says Seoul
South Korean president says Pyongyang has not attached conditions such as US troop withdrawal
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North Korea will accept denuclearization without conditions, Moon says
North Korea has expressed its commitment to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula and is not seeking conditions, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday, as the United States vowed to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang. Moon said big-picture agreements about denuclearization, establishing a peace regime and normalization of relations between the two Koreas and the United States should not be difficult to reach through summits between the North and South, and between the North and the United States.
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North Korea is now connected to South Korea with a direct hotline
South Korean officials no longer have to use a bullhorn to communicate messages to their reclusive neighbor to the North. A direct phone line was installed and tested Friday, connecting South Korea's Blue House, the official residence and office of President Moon Jae-in, and the North's State Affairs Commission, where leader Kim Jong Un's power is consolidated.
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Kim Jong-Un Heralds More 'Chinese-Style' Economic Reforms in North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's promise to build "socialist economic construction" in his nuclear-armed but impoverished and isolated country could herald more Chinese-style economic reforms, according to analysts — but he will never explicitly say so. Alongside the declaration on Saturday that the North had completed the development of its nuclear arsenal and no more atomic or missile tests were needed, Kim proclaimed that the "new strategic line" for the ruling Workers' Party would be "socialist economic construction".
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South Korea Silences Propaganda Loudspeakers on Border With North
South Korea turned off loudspeakers blaring bouncy music and other propaganda into North Korea on Monday, silencing weapons of psychological warfare so annoying to the North that its military once fired shots across the border. The South’s Defense Ministry said it switched off all batteries of the propaganda loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border, known as the Demilitarized Zone, days before its president, Moon Jae-in, is to join the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, there on Friday for a summit meeting.
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Kim Jong Un will walk across border for a summit with Moon
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon-Jae-in will plant a commemorative tree and inspect an honor guard together after Kim walks across the border Friday for their historic summit, Seoul officials said Thursday. The talks on the southern side of the border village of Panmunjom are expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program, but there will be plenty of symbolism when Kim becomes the first North Korean leader to be in the southern section of the border since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
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