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NKorea policy in Seoul to soften despite rocket
It is not too early to predict one sure winner of South Korea's presidential election next week: North Korea. President Lee Myung-bak's hardline ...
SKorea's porn fight 'like shoveling in a blizzard'
Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame ...
North Korea gears up to launch long-range rocket
North Korea is gearing up to fire a long-range rocket this month in a defiant move expected to raise the stakes of a global standoff over its missile ...
Iran's Ahmadinejad ridicules expense of US vote
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the U.S. election, mocking it as a "battleground for capitalists" while speaking at a ...
Obama's return a test of evolving foreign policy
Phrases to describe some of the looming foreign policy challenges for President Barack Obama didn't even exist when he took the oath of office the ...
S. Korean candidate in late dictator dad's shadow
Carrying a bouquet of flowers, South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye stepped forward to honor one of the martyrs in her country's long ...
Analysis: Asia a big focus for next US president
Changes could be in store for U.S.-Asian relations, but that has little to do with the presidential race. Lost in the backbiting between President ...
NKorea threatens to attack SKorea over leaflets
North Korea's military threatened Friday to strike a South Korean border area where anti-Pyongyang activists plan to launch leaflets from balloons ...
South Korean software mogul hopes for presidency
As a bookish entrepreneur who made his fortune in software before turning to philanthropy, Ahn Cheol-soo has been called South Korea's Bill Gates.
North Korea: Spark could set off nuclear war
A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, warning that its "hostile" policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from ...
SKorea: Japan must educate people on colonial past
South Korea's foreign minister said Thursday that Japan's wartime past will overshadow relations between the two staunch U.S. allies until Japan ...
Nationalism may rise under Japan's next gov't
One is a former prime minister known for his nationalistic views. A second is a hawkish former defense chief. And a third is the son of Tokyo's ...
SKorea regains old embassy in US, snipes at Japan
A grand, aging, red-brick house in Washington concealed by a pair of towering magnolia trees has become an unlikely setting for South Korea's ...
Clinton urges feuding Asian neighbors to cool it
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Asian countries embroiled in simmering territorial disputes to work together to ease rather than ...
Nationalism stokes island disputes around Asia
They are mere specks on the map. Many are uninhabited, and others sparsely so by fishermen and seasonal residents. Yet the disputed ownership of these ...
China is tough against Tokyo but reins in activism
Wu Qingjun is no dissident. In fact, this activist's pet issue — China's claim over a set of islands controlled by Japan — aligns him squarely with ...
Activists up ante in China, Japan isle dispute
When Tokyo's nationalist governor suggested buying uninhabited islands at the center of a long-simmering dispute with China, Beijing immediately ...
Japan activists land, raise flags on disputed isle
Japan's territorial disputes with its neighbors flared anew Sunday as a group of nationalist activists swam ashore and raised flags on an island also ...
SKorean chaebol boss sentenced to 4 years prison
The chairman of Hanwha Corp., one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, was sentenced to four years prison and fined 5.1 billion won ($4.5 million) ...
Asian island dispute flares on WWII anniversary
Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday's ...
SKorean leader visits islets, draws Japan protest
South Korea's president has made a surprise, election-year visit to islets also claimed by Japan, which quickly reasserted its sovereignty there, ...
Ex-NKorean star recalls 'ping pong diplomacy'
Her eyes well up when Li Pun Hui recalls her role in a historic example of "ping pong diplomacy." In 1991, the North Korean table tennis star paired ...
S. Korean president's brother jailed in bribe case
The South Korean president's brother was arrested and taken to a detention center Wednesday after a court approved a warrant on bribery allegations, ...
South Korean detained for unapproved trip to North
As North Koreans cheered and waved white "unified Korea" flags, a South Korean activist was detained as soon as he set foot on home soil Thursday, ...