All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Korea world’s biggest arms importer

    By Rachel Lee South Korea was the world’s biggest arms importer last year, according to a U.S. congressional study on the global arms trade. The Congressional Research Service annual report shows that the government bought arms and...

    • Posted December 30, 2015
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  • A man in his 60s is seen holing a knife inside
    Police arrest armed assailant at NPAD Chairman Moon Jae-in’s district office

    Police arrested an armed assailant Wednesday morning after he went on a rampage at the district office of Chairman Moon Jae-in of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD). The man in his 60s was taken into...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • BigBang, top, and EXO
    BigBang, EXO sweep Korean charts in 2015

    Girl groups fail to crack top 10   SEOUL (Yonhap) — Boy bands BigBang and EXO reigned over South Korea’s digital and albums charts in 2015, respectively, while none of their female counterparts made it into the...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • (AP)
    Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern California suburbs

    SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A moderate earthquake has shaken an inland area of Southern California, but there are no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report that the...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • Kim Yang-gon (Yonhap)
    N. Korea’s senior official handling inter-Korean affairs dies

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Kim Yang-gon, North Korea’s top party official handling inter-Korean affairs, was killed in a traffic accident, Pyongyang’s state media said Wednesday. He was 73. Kim, a secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • South and North Korean troops stand guard at the neutral border village of Panmunjom. (Yonhap file photo)
    S. Korean soldier found dead inside DMZ in gun-related incident

    HWACHEON, South Korea (Yonhap) — A South Korean soldier was found dead on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone early Wednesday morning in a gun-related incident, the military said. Army Private Jeong was found with gunshot...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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  • A statue of a young girl, symbolizing the victims of Japan's sexual enslavement, is seen in this photo taken on Dec. 28, 2015. The statue, set up in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, has become an issue in the agreement announced on the day by South Korea and Japan to end their confrontation over "comfort women." Japan is pressing for it to be relocated elsewhere, and South Korea said it will take into account Japan's concerns and try to solve the situation in an appropriate manner. (Yonhap)
    [WSJ] Japanese businesses pushed to end South Korea dispute

    —  Japanese business leaders pushed hard for their country to resolve a dispute with South Korea over the use of Korean women by Japanese soldiers in military brothels during World War II, and...

    • Posted December 29, 2015
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