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Yesterday, North Korea carried out the launch of its Kwangmyongsong-2 experimental communications satellite. This has been a highly unfortunate situation, in that in doing so North Korea spurned deman
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2009.04.10 16:44
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South Korea and the European Union (EU) failed to finalize their negotiations on a free trade deal. The failure comes as both sides were unable to narrow the gap on the so-called 'duty drawback issue
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2009.04.10 16:43
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North Korea has still not released a Hyundai Asan employee in the Kaesong (Gaeseong) Industrial Park whom it has detained since March 30. The situation looks like it could become a drawn-out affair, c
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2009.04.03 14:54
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국가인권위원회를 눈엣가시로 여기는 정권 국무회의는 국가인권위원회(인권위) 인원을 20% 이상 줄이는 직제개정령안을 그제 행정안전부 원안대로 통과시켰다. 인권위는 이에 맞서 직제개정안에 대한 대통령령 효력정지 가처분신청과 권한쟁의 심판청구를 헌법재판소에 냈다. 국가기관 사이 권한을 다투는 희귀한 사태가 발생한 것이다. 사태가 이 지경에 이른 책임은 전적으로
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2009.04.03 14:51
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Negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) are nearing to a close. Today marks the end of two days of talks, the eighth of their kind, and it is said the two sides are p
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2009.03.27 15:46
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It is hard to agree with the court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for YTN union chairman Roh Jong-myeon. Prosecutors applied for the warrant on Roh and two others in the unions’ lea
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2009.03.27 15:44
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The Gaeseong Industrial Complex enterprise has already suffered a lot of damage. It is of no help to either North or South to have it be the focus of so much negative news coverage. The North and Sout
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2009.03.20 17:26
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A Supreme Court fact-finding committee concluded Monday that Justice Shin Young-chul intervened in trials involving people who protested against resumption of U.S. beef imports, and has decided to tra
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2009.03.20 17:25
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Following on the heels of the discovery that public officials at Seoul’s Yangcheon and Yongsan District Offices kept subsidy money intended for the disabled, public officials in Haenam, Jeollana
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2009.03.13 16:54
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Inter-Korean relations are getting worse every day. North and South have no open line of communication now because the contact link between military officials on both sides has been shut down by the N
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2009.03.13 16:53
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The economic regression is serious. The manufacturing industry that forms the basis of our economy has fallen into the worst of states while financial markets, once giving the appearance they were sta
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2009.03.06 16:54
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Material evidence has surfaced proving that high-ranking individuals in the courts applied pressure in cases related to last year’s candlelight protests, for example urging faster proceedings in
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2009.03.06 16:53
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The sinking of Dubai is not like a fire on the far side of the river. The Lee Myung-bak administration is trying to achieve economic growth with “the Dubai model,” with things like the con
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2009.02.27 15:39
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More than a month has passed since the Yongsan tragedy occurred. It took the lives of five civilians and one police officer, but the black smoke, the deadly fire and the desperate screams for help are
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2009.02.27 15:37
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United States President Barack Obama approved a plan to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan yesterday, marking the beginning of a greater military presence in that country, as promised dur
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2009.02.20 17:23
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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, before leaving on her first foreign trip in that capacity as the goes to Korea, China, Japan, and Indonesia, said she is going because “so much
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2009.02.20 17:21
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Rumor has it that individuals who were once special advisers to President Lee Myung-bak during his campaign are being seriously considered for the job of president at OBS Gyeongin Television and Seoul
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2009.02.13 16:10
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Yoon Jeung-hyun, the country’s new Minister of Strategy and Finance, says the economy might end up with -2 percent growth this year, and that he is going to strive to turn that around. Exports s
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2009.02.13 16:08
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The public hearing scheduled by the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee to discuss flight safety as it relates to the building of a new Lotte World building walked right off the agend
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2009.02.06 16:11
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Economic forecasts are going amiss. Exports, which are considered the biggest engines powering the economy, suffered a 32.8 percent drop last month. It was the biggest monthly drop since the governmen
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