All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • The road to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea is empty, Friday. All South Korean workers left the industrial park safely Thursday after North Korea closed the area and froze all South Korean assets there. (Yonhap)
    USFK to deploy THAAD

    By Rachel Lee South Korea will allow the United States to deploy at least one terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD) battery for defense against North Korean missiles, a senior military official said Friday. A Korea-U.S. joint...

    • Posted February 12, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015, pool file photo, crews work on stopping a gas leak at a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles.The utility says it has stopped the natural gas leak near Los Angeles after nearly 4 months. (Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
    Massive gas leak near Los Angeles plugged after 16 weeks

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A blowout at a natural gas well that gushed uncontrollably for 16 weeks and drove thousands of residents from their Los Angeles homes was plugged Thursday, a utility said. While the well still...

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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    Yoo Ah-in’s new film to be released in US this month

    LOS ANGELES (Yonhap) — “Like for Likes,” a South Korean romantic comedy starring actor Yoo Ah-in, will be released in the United States later this month, the film’s distributor said Thursday. The film, which follows three couples...

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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  • Inmates stand on the rooftop of the Topo Chico prison as police stand guard on the perimeters, after a riot broke out around midnight, in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Dozens of inmates were killed and several injured in a brutal fight between two rival factions at the prison in northern Mexico, the state governor said. (AP Photo/Emilio Vazquez)
    Riot at prison in northern Mexico leaves 49 inmates dead

    MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — A brawl between rival drug gangs at an overcrowded penitentiary in northern Mexico turned into a riot Thursday, leaving 49 inmates dead and 12 injured in the country’s deadliest prison melee in years....

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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  • Kai, a member of South Korean boy band EXO (Yonhap)
    Kai to join EXO’s North American tour in Vancouver

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Kai, a member of South Korean boy band EXO, will join the band’s second North American concert in Vancouver after he missed the first show in Dallas due to visa problems, the group’s agency...

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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    Yao, Shaq, Iverson look to take next step to Hall of Fame

    TORONTO (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal should be a lock. Yao Ming and Allen Iverson could join him. Two larger-than-life big men and one of basketball’s most exciting little guys highlight the list of players, coaches and contributors...

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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  • Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raises a fist as he arrives for a breakfast meeting with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's Restaurant, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
    Feel the Bern? Clinton camp slams Sanders for missed N. Korea vote

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is being criticized for missing a Senate vote to approve a set of stringent sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests. The senator...

    • Posted February 11, 2016
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