All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms Third Class Danielle Hinchliff, left, and Master-at-Arms Third Class Anna Schnatzmeyer listen during training in 2013. (Gerry Broome / AP, file)
    Lawmakers introduce bill to make women register for draft

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican congressmen who are military veterans have introduced a bill requiring women to register for the draft. Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Ryan Zinke of Montana announced Thursday that the legislation is...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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  • Korean New Zealander Lydia Ko watches a tee shot. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Lydia Ko catches up to lead before rain hits LPGA in Florida

    OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko played enough golf Thursday to catch up to the lead. She just didn’t play enough to finish the rain-delayed second round of the Coates Golf Championship. Ko, the No. 1 player...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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  • Wu Dawei, middle, China's representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs, talks to Pak Song-il, deputy director of the America department at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, upon his arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday. The visit of Wu, China's point man on North Korea, comes amid a flurry of diplomacy following North Korea's fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. North Korea says it successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb. ( Yonhap)
    North Korea’s rocket plans seen as disrespectful of China

    BEIJING (AP) — North Korea’s announcement of plans to launch a long-range rocket made during a visit to Pyongyang by a top Chinese envoy will likely be seen as yet another sign of gross disrespect toward its...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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  • FILE - This picture taken on Thursday, April. 24, 2014 and provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), U.N relief workers with blue helmets and vests stand next of residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, right, who stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. On wednesday, April. 1, 2015 Islamic State militants infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital marking the deepest foray yet by the extremist group into Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s power, Syrian opposition activists and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File )
    S. Korea to offer $12 million in aid to help Syria

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will provide $12 million worth of aid to help resolve the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Seoul officials said Friday. The decision was made at an international donors’ conference in London that Lee...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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    Suspect for fake bomb with memo in Arabic turns out to be Korean

    By Chung Ah-young Police have apprehended a suspect who allegedly planted a fake explosive device with a threatening letter written in Arabic at Incheon International Airport. The Incheon International Airport Police said Thursday that they detained the...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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  • A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, left, and other South Korean missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. South Korea warned on Wednesday of "searing" consequences if North Korea doesn't abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that critics call a banned test of ballistic missile technology.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea will shoot down N. Korean rocket if necessary: ministry

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea won’t hesitate to shoot down a North Korean rocket or its debris if necessary, the Defense Ministry said Thursday, amid clear signs that the secretive neighbor’s rocket launch is imminent. North Korea...

    • Posted February 4, 2016
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  • Long Hoang Ma, a California taxi driver held hostage for a week by three escaped inmates, shows how his captors held a gun to him as he talks about his experiences during an interview at the offices of Vietnamese-language newspaper Nguoi Viet in Westminster, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Ma said the fugitives laughed gleefully as they watched TV reports about the search from motel rooms where they holed up during the manhunt. Ma also said he was befriended by inmate Bac Duong, who called him "uncle" and served as his protector as the fugitives argued over whether to kill him.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Kidnapped cab driver recalls ordeal with California inmates

    WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — A 74-year-old California taxi driver expected to die when an escaped jail inmate put a gun to his stomach and kidnapped him. But on Wednesday, the driver instead thanked the man for saving...

    • Posted February 3, 2016
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