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South Korea Demands Apology From North Over Dam Incident

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Choe Sang Hun - Sep. 08 (News Report) - SEOUL, South Korea — Unsatisfied with North Korea’s explanation for its release of dam water, which created a flash flood in the South that killed at least three people, South Korea on Tuesday demanded a formal apology from the North.

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Officials of 2 Koreas Meet in the South - NYTimes.com

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Choe Sang Hun - Aug. 22 (News Report) - After a cooling of relations, the first major political meeting between the two Koreas in nearly two years is imminent.

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Glitch forces SKorea to abort rocket launch - washingtonpost.com

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Aug. 19 (News Report) - SEOUL, South Korea -- A technical glitch forced South Korea to abort liftoff of its first rocket into space Wednesday, delaying a launch that threatened to heat up tensions with rival North Korea even as they joined in mourning the death of an ex-president who pushed tirelessly for reconciliation.

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N. Korea Agrees to Resume Joint Projects With S. Korea - washingtonpost.com

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Aug. 16 (News Report) - TOKYO, Aug. 17 -- In a shift from pugnacious confrontation to measured conciliation, North Korea appears to be recalibrating its relations with the United States, South Korea and the outside world.

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North Korea makes nuclear threat over military drills | Reuters

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Aug. 15 (News Report) - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denounced upcoming joint South Korean and U.S. military drills and said it would "wipe out" the countries with nuclear weapons if they threatened the communist state, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.

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Report: N. Korea captures S. Korean boat

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 01 (News Report) - North Korean officials confirmed that they have captured a South Korean vessel that had strayed into North Korean waters, the country's state-run news agency reported Saturday.

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North Korea leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: report | U.S.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jack Kim - Jul. 13 (News Report) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources

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The Press Association: N Korea blamed for cyber attacks

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Press Association - Jul. 09 (News Report) - South Korea's main spy agency has said North Korea is believed to be behind the cyber attacks targeting government and other websites in the country and in the United States. North Korea, which has been firing missiles and spewing threats against America, is not known for its computing prowess, but experts said such attacks would be easy - and cheap - to mount by hiring outside help. The attacks began paralysing websites in the US over the July 4 Independence Day holiday weekend and in South Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday. And a South Korean computer security company said another wave of cyber attacks was now expected in South Korea. South Korea's National Intelligence Service told members of parliament's intelligence committee that Pyongyang or its sympathisers were believed to be behind the attacks, according to aides to two of the MPs.

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North Korea Suspected in Cyberattack

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden, Brian Krebs, Ellen Nakashima - Jul. 08 (News Report) - South Korea's intelligence agency suspects that North Korea may have been behind an Internet attack that on Tuesday and Wednesday targeted government Web sites in South Korea and the United States, lawmakers in Seoul told Yonhap news service. Twenty-six Internet sites in the two countries, including the office of South Korea's president and the defense ministry, were targeted, the South Korean National Intelligence Service said in a statement. In the United States, the attack targeted Web sites operated by major government agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security and Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, according to several computer security researchers.

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Asia-Pacific | North Korea 'test fires missiles'

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported. The agency quoted defence officials as saying the fourth was launched at around 1220GMT from Sinsang-ni.

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NKorea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Kwang Tae Kim - Jun. 27 (News Report) - SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites. The North has designated a no-sail zone off its eastern coast from June 25 to July 10 for military drills, raising concerns that it might test-fire short- or mid-range missiles in the coming days, in violation of a U.N. resolution.

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Yeonpyeong Island Journal - In Clash Between Koreas, Fishermen Feel First Bite

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Martin Fackler - Jun. 24 (News Report) - Sitting in front of his house, mending a fishing net with hands gnarled by years of pulling a living from the sea, Kim Sang-jin recalled the last time North and South Korea clashed militarily in the nearby Yellow Sea.

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N. Korea warns ships of impending drill

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jun. 23 (News Report) - North Korea is warning the world to stay out of part of its eastern waters for 16 days, starting Thursday, saying it will hold a military drill, Japanese officials said. The reclusive communist nation did not specify consequences of ships entering those waters during the drill, but the dates fall within the timeframe cited by Japanese media last week for a possible North Korea missile launch toward Hawaii.

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S. Korea Expected to Seek Reaffirmation of U.S. Nuclear Protection

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - SEOUL, June 15 -- As state media in North Korea continued to warn of possible nuclear war, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak flew to Washington for talks with President Obama at which Lee is expected to seek a written promise of continued U.S. nuclear protection.

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SKorea's Lee Departs for US for Summit With Obama

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - South Korea's president said Monday that the country's alliance with the United States is key to resolving North Korea's nuclear and missile threats as he flew to Washington for a summit with President Barack Obama. The summit scheduled for Tuesday comes in the wake of North Korea's weekend declaration that it would step up its nuclear bomb-making program. It also threatened war with any country that tries to stop its ships on the high seas as part of new U.N. Security Council sanctions passed in response to Pyongyang's May 25 nuclear test.

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South Korea Sidelined in U.S. Journalist Drama in Pyongyang - NAM

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Despite a heavier-than-expected 12 year sentence handed down to two American journalists being held in North Korea, their eventual release remains a distinct possibility as such a move would carry multiple benefits for the Communist state. The price of that freedom, however, is what’s keeping everyone in the region on pins and needles.

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Reporters' families seek mercy, N.Korea makes threats

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Relatives of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea called on the reclusive state to show compassion, while Pyongyang threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend itself.

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North Korea Set for New Missile Launch. Are We Expecting a New Saddam?

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Martha Collins - Jun. 08 (News Analysis) - What is going on with these guys? They detonate a nuclear device. Days later they test fire two long range rockets. After South Korea joined the US sea initiative last week, the North declared that the 1953 armistice was void. Now they tell their merchant marine to avoid some Yellow Sea areas as they may test fire another rocket.

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South Korea Says No Compromise Against North's Threats

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jun. 06 (News Report) - South Korea will not back down to communist North Korea after it raised global concerns last week with a defiant nuclear test and threats to attack its capitalist neighbour, the South's president said on Saturday. The U.N. Security Council is looking to punish the reclusive North for its nuclear test which was met by international condemnation, while a South Korean daily said U.S. officials are moving to clamp down on the impoverished state's meagre international finances.

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South Koreans mourn late president

Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jiyeon Lee - May. 30 (News Report) - He was the people’s president. South Koreans flooded the streets of Seoul to see late president Roh Moo-hyun’s funeral on Friday, many taking time off from work or traveling hours to pay their final respects. Roh shocked the country by jumping to his death a week ago in the midst of a corruption investigation.

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North Korea Moves Another Missile; U.S. Decries

Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Eric Talmadge - May. 30 (Special Report) - (PANMUNJOM, Korea) — Spy satellites have spotted signs that North Korea may be preparing to transport another long-range missile to a test launch site, South Korean officials said Saturday, as the U.S. defense secretary issued his harshest warning to the North since its recent nuclear test.

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South Korea and U.S. Raise Alert Level

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Choe Sang Hun - May. 29 (Special Report) - One day after North Korea warned of a possible attack against the South, the United States and South Korea ordered their forces here to their highest alert for three years, increasing surveillance flights and satellite reconnaissance to counter what officials termed a “grave threat.”

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North Korea Test-Fires Short-Range Missile

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - May. 29 (Special Report) - TOKYO, May 29 -- North Korea rattled its neighbors again Friday when it fired a short-range missile off its east coast, the sixth such firing since the secretive country conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday, and a large number of Chinese fishing boats left the disputed water off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula in the past several days, according to reports from South Korea.

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New North Korea Missile Test Reported

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Siyoung Lee - May. 29 (News Report) - North Korea defiantly test-fired another short-range missile Friday and warned it would take "self-defense" action if provoked by the U.N. Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions against the communist regime for conducting a nuclear test.

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North Korea Threatens Military Strikes if Ships Are Searched

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Choe Sang-Hun - May. 28 (News Report) - North Korea escalated its vitriol against South Korea and the United States on Wednesday with warnings of a “powerful military strike” if any North Korean ships were stopped or searched as part of an American-led operation to intercept vessels suspected of carrying unconventional weapons.

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