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NIS agent gets 4 years in prison for faking evidence to frame defector

An appeals court Wednesday sentenced a South Korean intelligence agent to four years in prison, convicting him of ordering the fabrication of documents to …

U.N. chief calls for bipartisan S. Korean support

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for South Korean parliamentary support of the international body’s push for climate change, …

Glass ceiling in S. Korea still hard to crack: poll

Seven out of 10 workers in South Korea think that there is a thick glass ceiling in their workplace, a poll showed Wednesday, demonstrating that the local work …

S. Korea ordered to pay lepers for abuse

South Korea should compensate hundreds of lepers for castrating them and forcing them to have abortions for decades until the late 1990s, a court ruled …

N. Korea calls off U.N. chief’s visit to Gaeseong complex
N. Korea calls off U.N. chief’s visit to Gaeseong complex

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that North Korea has called off his planned visit to an inter-Korean industrial complex in the North.   Ban …

N. Korea slams South over wage row at Gaeseong complex

North Korea rebuked South Korea on Wednesday for refusing to raise wages for North Korean workers at their joint industrial park, claiming that the North has a …

U.S. considering ‘permanent stationing’ of THAAD in S. Korea: senior U.S. official

The United States is considering permanently stationing a THAAD missile defense unit in South Korea to help defend against North Korean threats, even though no …

China trying to use THAAD issue to ‘create a wedge’ in U.S.-Korea

China’s vocal opposition to the potential deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system to South Korea is believed to be aimed in part at creating …

Top U.S. official strongly suggests N. Korea’s manipulation of imagery of SLBM test

A top U.S. military official suggested Tuesday that North Korea manipulated a video of its recent test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile to exaggerate …

Hundreds more scholars sign joint statement urging Japan to acknowledge sex slavery

Hundreds of more scholars from around the world have joined their colleagues in a landmark joint statement criticizing Japan for distorting the history of its …

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