All posts tagged "US"

  • Noh Kwang-il, spokesman for the foreign ministry (Yonhap)
    Seoul hails US-Cuba agreement to restore diplomatic ties

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea expressed hopes Thursday that an agreement between the United States and Cuba to restore their diplomatic ties could help create an atmosphere that leads to an improvement in Seoul-Havana relations. In a...

    • Posted December 18, 2014
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  • U.K. ASMRtist Nicole, also known as Pigsbum53, is one of many multilingual content producers who use different languages to appeal to wider audiences. In this case, Nicole speaks both English and Korean. (YouTube screen capture)
    ASMR, tingling viewers in all languages

    By Brian Han ASMR or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is defined as a pleasurable tingling sensation felt on a person’s head that can be triggered by sounds, images, touch and even smell in some cases. Rebekah Smith,...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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  • (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
    Obama: Some of CIA’s harsh methods were ‘brutal’

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations were “brutal,” ”wrong” and “counterproductive,” but that releasing the information was an important step in...

    • Posted December 9, 2014
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  • A sign displays the price for E-10 gasoline for $1.99 at the OnCue convenience store and gas station, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul B. Southerland)
    Gas prices below $2 a gallon in Texas, Oklahoma

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gas has dropped below $2 a gallon at a handful of stations in Oklahoma and Texas this week, a level that a price-watching group says is the lowest in the nation and a...

    • Posted December 5, 2014
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  • The NASA Orion space capsule atop a Delta IV rocket, in its first unmanned orbital test flight, lifts off from the Space Launch Complex 37B pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
    NASA successfully launches Orion spacecraft

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles and ushered in a...

    • Posted December 5, 2014
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  • Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warned at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2014 that North Korea will likely launch a nuclear attack on America's western coast in less than ten years. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea slams US for overstating Pyongyang’s missile capacity

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea lambasted the United States on Friday for trying to exaggerate Pyongyang’s missile capacity, a tactic which the North said is aimed at stepping up the U.S. military presence on the Korean Peninsula....

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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  • The wreck of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport (Yonhap)
    Asiana gets 45-day suspension on San Francisco route over crash

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, was ordered Friday to suspend its services to San Francisco for 45 days as punishment for a passenger jet crash in the U.S. city last...

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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