Category: Korea
N Korea town opens to Western tourists
North Korea’s authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinese-based travel agencies said, despite international tensions over [...]
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N Korea agrees to return to nuclear talks under pressure from China
North Korea has offered to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media have reported. At a meeting on Thursday between vice-marshal Choe Ryong Hae and Liu Yunshan, a [...]
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S. Korea not moving to ease, lift sanctions on Pyongyang
South Korea is not considering easing or lifting sanctions imposed on Pyongyang after the sinking of one of the South’s warships in 2010 that effectively put the kibosh [...]
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N. Korea wants peace, envoy tells China official
A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China’s top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key [...]
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Japan slams Korea daily’s ‘A-bomb’ op-ed comments
Japan yesterday accused a South Korean newspaper of “dishonourable” behaviour for publishing an editorial suggesting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [...]
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‘Comfort women’ cancel meeting with Osaka mayor
Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them [...]
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Little progress as N. Korea envoy visits China for talks
A special envoy dispatched to China by North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un spent a second day in Beijing on Thursday continuing what appeared to be fence-mending efforts with [...]
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Korea needs to keep easy policy for while: think tank
South Korea needs to maintain an expansionary monetary policy for a longer period as the economy is growing slower than forecast while inflation eases to a 14-year low, a [...]
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Samsung sells more than 10 mn Galaxy S4 smartphones
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Thursday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less [...]
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Korea Q1 household credit growth slumps to 8-yr low
South Korea’s annual household credit growth eased to the slowest rate in more than eight years over the first quarter, data showed on Thursday, underscoring a [...]
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European banks stop sending money to N Korea: aid groups
European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of US sanctions on Pyongyang’s main foreign exchange bank, leaving [...]
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N. Korea ‘special envoy’ in China meeting
A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing Wednesday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a [...]
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N Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid: group
Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on [...]
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Korea’s First Cargo Airline Plans China Route Chasing Samsung
Air Incheon Co., South Korea’s first cargo-only airline, plans to start services this year to smaller cities in China, where Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Apple [...]
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China, N Korea and the Tale of Two Fishing Boats
Is the Chinese government’s uneasy friendship with North Korea costing it the public’s confidence? A curious confluence of recent events involving two fishing [...]
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