SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) — The head of US intelligence visited South Korea earlier in the week to discuss Seoul’s Afghan troop deployment plans and North Korea’s nuclear standoff, a government source said Friday. The source, who declined to be …
Read Original Story: US intelligence chief visited S. Korea for Afghan deployment, nuke consultation – Yonhap News
One expert analysis in the South Korean media yesterday asserted that the main reason why US and South Korean heads of states have met North Korea countless times, and pledged themselves to nuclear abandonment more than once, …
Read Original Story: Put a Military Response on the Nuclear Table – Daily NK
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and South Korea will send a joint survey team next month to industrial zones in China and Vietnam. The delegation’s task is to study ways to improve their joint manufacturing park. …
Read Original Story: S.Korea, DPRK agree on joint survey to industrial zones – CCTV
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) — Seoul is in the final stages of fixing a timetable for deploying its troops to Afghanistan for protection of its civilian aid workers in the war-torn country, officials said Friday. South Korea has long pushed …
Read Original Story: Seoul set to finalize Afghan troop deployment schedule: officials – Yonhap News
Long-time aides of former Presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung got together in Seoul Thursday, in a move towards reconciliation. Kim Young-sam, who served as president from 1993 to 1998, proposed having a reconciliatory gathering …
Read Original Story: Aides of 2 Kims Meet – Korea Times
North Korea is becoming ever more reliant on China after playing a high-stakes poker game this year with a second nuclear test and launching missiles despite repeated warnings from the international community. …
Read Original Story: Pyongyang’s Dependency on Beijing Worries Seoul – Korea Times
SEOUL – NORTH Korea on Wednesday blasted South Korea for ignoring its offer to resume cross-border tours, denying allegations that tourist dollars had been used to develop nuclear weapons. The Asia Pacific Peace Committee, the North’s government agency …
Read Original Story: N.Korea blasts Seoul over tours – Straits Times
As South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission continues its probe into the “Bodo Massacres,” the heretofore little examined slaughter of civilians by fleeing South Korean forces during the start of the Korean War …
Read Original Story: South Korea Confirms Nearly 5000 Civilians Killed in Wartime Massacres – Antiwar.com
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea / AP On a cold February night in 1951, South Korean troops moved swiftly to take a communist guerrilla stronghold on Bulgap Mountain, …
Read Original Story: Is Time Running Out to Dig Up South Korea's Mass Graves? – TIME
A joint-Korean fact-finding team will visit industrial parks in China and Vietnam to look for inspiration for the floundering Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North. In a press briefing on Thursday, Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said, …
Read Original Story: Officials from Both Koreas to Tour Industrial Parks Abroad – The Chosun Ilbo
