Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Korea demanded apologies from South Korea over a clash between the two countries' navies in the Yellow Sea earlier on Tuesday, the North's official news agency reported.
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Disagreements over a United States army base in Japan and a free-trade agreement with South Korea are likely to figure prominently in President Barack Obama's visit to Northeast Asia. Nonetheless, Obama is expected to grasp this opportunity to reaffirm the US's longstanding relationship with its two closest allies in the region. (Nov 11, '09)
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Korea demanded apologies from South Korea over a clash between the two countries' navies in the Yellow Sea earlier on Tuesday, the North's official news agency reported.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is ready to deter any retaliation by North Korea following the two countries' first naval clash in seven years, officials said Wednesday, as the top U.S. diplomat said the skirmish will not scuttle a planned visit to Pyongyang by an American envoy. Tuesday's clash occurred hours before U.S. officials said President Barack Obama had decided to accept a North Korean...
Gusts of Popular Feeling (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
While today is Pepero Day in Korea, in Canada it's Remembrance Day. It's the first time in nine years I've been home for it, and it's been in the news a lot. At this very moment I can hear on TV the story of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving behind an infant daughter. So it goes. My father has done research into our family history for over two decades, and I've tried to do my part as well, especially...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Seoul - North and South Korea on Wednesday strengthened the monitoring of their border in the Yellow Sea, a day after engaging in a sea battle there, the South Korean government said. South Korea's naval forces were put on heightened alert in prepar...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Local government backing and the promise of a high-quality life have helped a built-from-scratch city on reclaimed land west of Seoul to survive the financial crisis and numerous domestic doubts. But Songdo City's first post-recession test is coming as more apartments are put up for sale. - David McNeill
Hummers & Cigarettes (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wonder how our fearful leader -- the Community-Organizer-In-Chief -- will respond to this frightening development today. From FoxNews (emphasis added): Koreas Exchange Fire in Naval Clash Tuesday , November 10, 2009 SEOUL, South Korea — A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South...
Gusts of Popular Feeling (Free subscription) | yesterday
On this list may be 21,000 E-2 visa holders, who are "especially potential child molesters"! * Two weeks ago I noted that two National Assembly representatives had made irresponsible statements about foreign English teachers. One of these representatives was a GNP Rep. from Busan (and SNU graduate) Lee Joo-young , who, according to the Korea Times , said: In the inspection, Rep. Lee Joo-young...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seoul - North and South Korea blamed one another Tuesday for a clash of warships off their west coasts that Seoul said left a patrol ship from the North in flames. Both governments agreed that South Korea was the first to...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, South Korea - The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating,...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Uh oh! Something is afoot - two navy patrol boats from our peninsula-ed friends to the East began shooting at each other near Daecheong-do , an island about 125 miles west of Seoul earlier today. According to South Korean news service Yonhap, fighting erupted when a DPRK navy boat crossed the Northern Limit Line . South Korea issued warning broadcasts, and then fired some warning shots when the broadcasts...
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Translation Error Results in Russian Gift of Tigers November.10, 2009 08:52 KST Russia has agreed to donate three Siberian tigers to Korea, the Environment Ministry announced Monday. Siberian tigers, also known as Manchurian or Korean tigers, once widely inhabited the Korean Peninsula but the species is now on the verge of extinction with only a small number living in the wild in the Russian Far East....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Seoul - Warships belonging to North and South Korea clashed off their west coasts Tuesday, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Seoul said, adding that it remained unclear whether there were any casualties. A North Korean patrol ship...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Seoul - Warships belonging to North and South Korea clashed off their west coast Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported, citing naval and Defence Ministry officials in Seoul. A North Korean patrol ship crossed the Northern Limit Line, the...
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crompt | 09/21/2009
Kuala Lumpur is one of five Asian cities to host the QS World Arts Tour which will show case regional and global creative , performing arts and design institutions as well as galleries and theatres. The tour will start on February 21 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and will then move to Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai. “They will be able to showcase their courses, programmes and works...
mirabeau | 09/10/2008
Popping up again in Japan, the rumor that North Korea’s leader is being replaced by a double has been doing the rounds ever since the communist nation was founded. A specialist in North Korea at Waseda university in Japan and a former correspondent in Seoul for the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun , Japanese academic Toshimitsu Shigemura has just published a book entitled “The True Nature of Kim Jong-il”
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