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NKorea: American starts life at 'special prison'
An American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang has described as hostile acts against the state has started life at a ...
Japanese mayor: Wartime sex slaves were necessary
An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to ...
Spies caught in website scandal embarrass SKorea
The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet ...
Sacked SKorea spokesman denies abuse allegations
A former top South Korean presidential spokesman who was dismissed for what officials called a "disgraceful incident" while accompanying President ...
NKorea nuke arsenal seen as matter of when, not if
For 20 years, fears about North Korea's headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been deflected by admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished ...
NKorea calls US-SKorea summit prelude to war
Ahead of a nuclear-powered U.S. carrier's visit to South Korea, North Korea on Friday called this week's summit between the U.S. and South Korean ...
NKorea: Detained American smuggled in propaganda
North Korea delivered its most in-depth account yet of the case against a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor, accusing him late ...
SKorean leader: Nuclear-armed North unacceptable
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye told Congress on Wednesday that she will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and that provocative actions ...
Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery
Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced ...
Rodman to Kim: 'Do me a solid' and free American
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced ...
NKorea issues warning ahead of US-SKorea summit
North Korea on Tuesday threatened the United States and South Korea over joint naval drills taking place this week in tense Yellow Sea waters ahead ...
World Golf Glance
US PGA TOUR THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: TPC Sawgrass, Players Stadium Course (7,215 ...
Last South Koreans leave factory in North Korea
The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since ...
North Korea sentences American to 15 years' labor
An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the state, the North's state ...
Most South Koreans leave North Korean factory
Most South Koreans who had remained at an industrial park in North Korea had returned home by early Tuesday morning, officials said, leaving a final ...
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow ...
A look at North Korea's military capabilities
North Korea's military, founded 81 years ago Thursday, is older than the country itself. It began as an anti-Japanese militia and is now the heart of ...
SKorea demands talks with NKorea on closed factory
After weeks of threatening rhetoric from the North, South Korea on Thursday promised its own unspecified "grave measures" if Pyongyang rejects talks ...
NKorea vows to bolster nuclear arms over US report
North Korea is vowing to bolster its nuclear program in response to a U.S. State Department report accusing Pyongyang of human rights abuses.
Japan war shrine visits anger China, South Korea
Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid homage at a national war shrine Tuesday morning, risking more anger from neighbors South Korea and China over visits ...
China says new North Korea nuclear test possible
China's top general said a fourth North Korean nuclear weapons test is a possibility that underscores the need for fresh talks between Pyongyang and ...
Young NKoreans train to seek 'revenge on US'
North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers — scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads — punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the ...
Report: US footing greater bill for overseas bases
The United States is footing more of the bill for overseas bases in Germany, Japan and South Korea even as the military reduces the number of American ...
Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies
Former Associated Press writer George McArthur, who was the quintessential foreign correspondent as he reported from the boulevards of Paris to the ...
Looking for logic in North Korea's threats
To the outside world, the talk often appears to border on the lunatic, with the poor, hungry and electricity-starved nation threatening to lay waste ...