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CTBT Eminent Persons urge N. Korea to stop nuclear testing

A group of international personalities calling for an end to nuclear testing visited the inter-Korean border Friday to face the only country that has tested …

Park vows to make Jeju an island of smart-tourism, energy self-sufficiency

President Park Geun-hye on Friday pledged to transform Jeju into one of the world’s best islands in terms of smart-tourism and energy self-sufficiency, …

Ex-first lady seeks to visit N.K.
Ex-first lady seeks to visit N.K.

The widow of former President Kim Dae-jung is seeking to visit North Korea as early as next month and possibly meet with leader Kim Jong-un, Seoul officials …

Political crisis deepens over Park’s veto
Political crisis deepens over Park’s veto

The nation’s two main parties fell into deeper turmoil on Friday as they struggled to respond to President Park Geun-hye’s veto of a controversial …

Another Samsung doctor contracts MERS
Another Samsung doctor contracts MERS

Another Samsung Medical Center doctor was found to have been infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome, raising questions over measures to protect …

Prosecution drops charges against Natural Endotech
Prosecution drops charges against Natural Endotech

The prosecution decided on Friday not to file charges against Korean biotech firm Natural Endotech whose health products were found to include a banned …

Cheong Wa Dae denies Park’s possible defection

The possibility that President Park Geun-hye may defect from the ruling party is groundless, a Cheong Wa Dae official said Friday. In a Cabinet meeting …

Korean nuke victims denied state compensation

A court ruled Friday that South Korea is not obligated to compensate its victims of the Hiroshima and Nakasaki atomic bombings who had been denied reparations …

S. Korean MERS patient in China recovered, released from hospital

A South Korean man, who had been treated at a Chinese hospital after being diagnosed with the MERS virus late last month, has recovered and been released from …

Seoul sanctions Taiwanese, Syrian firms over N.K. ties
Seoul sanctions Taiwanese, Syrian firms over N.K. ties

South Korea on Friday imposed financial sanctions on six Taiwanese individuals and entities and a Syrian institution over suspicions that they traded arms and …

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