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Seoul mayor: Questions surround sudden death as sympathy pours in.
The sudden death of Seoul’s mayor, reportedly implicated in a sexual harassment complaint, has prompted an outpouring of public sympathy even as it has raised questions about a man who built his career as a reform-minded politician and self-descri...
U.S., South Korean officials meet in Seoul as North Korea rejects nuclear talks
The U.S. point man for North Korea met with South Korean officials in Seoul on Wednesday for wide-ranging talks, overshadowed by Pyongyang's insistence that it has no intention of returning to denuclearisation negotiations any time soon.
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South Korea police say they’re questioning anti-North activists over campaigns.
The activists have sent leaflets and plastic bottles filled with rice across the border, prompting North Korea to raise provocations with the South.
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South Korea’s capital eyes stronger restrictions as coronavirus cases climb.
South Korea's health said Sunday afternoon that the government is prepared to implement stronger social distancing measures if the epidemic continues to grow.
South Korea has entered its 2nd wave of coronavirus.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said during a regular briefing the new wave stemmed from a visit to a nightclub during a holiday weekend in early May.
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South Korea police raid office of activist whose anti-North campaign raised tensions.
North Korea abruptly used Park Sang-hak's leaflet campaign as a justification for a series of provocative steps against South Korea.
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China sees new coronavirus cases go down following outbreak in Beijing.
This month's outbreak in Beijing has seen 260 people infected, most of them with links to the city's biggest wholesale market, leading authorities to lock down some communities and cancel classes.
Governments globally ramp up COVID-19 precautions as cases continue to surge.
Governments and businesses are ramping up precautions as coronavirus case numbers rise to dire new levels in parts of the U.S. and around the world.
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North Korea suspends planned military action against South, but tensions remain.
It was not immediately clear why North Korea had softened its position, which came after it blew up a liaison office last week and cut off communication hotlines with the South.
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South Korean activists float thousands of defector leaflets to North amid tensions.
The move is certain to intensify tensions between the Koreas, after the North abruptly raised its rhetoric against South Korean civilian leafleting and pushed to resume its psychological warfare against the South.
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Coronavirus: South Korea says it is battling ‘second wave’ of pandemic.
Health authorities in South Korea said for the first time on Monday it is in the midst of a "second wave" of novel coronavirus infections around Seoul, driven by small but persistent outbreaks stemming from a holiday in May.
North Korea says military will redeploy at former inter-Korean cooperation sites.
The announcement came a day after North Korea destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office in a choreographed display of anger that puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
North Korea blows up inter-Korea liaison office as tensions with South Korea rise.
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday.
North Korea threatens to move military back into demilitarized zone.
The General Staff of the Korean People's Army said it's reviewing a ruling party recommendation to advance into unspecified border areas that had been demilitarized under agreements with the South.
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Kim Jong Un’s sister says South Korea an ‘enemy,’ threatens military action.
Describing South Korea as an ``enemy,'' Kim Yo Jong repeated an earlier threat she had made by saying Seoul will soon witness the collapse of a ``useless'' inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesong.
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China sees first locally spread case of novel coronavirus in weeks.
China has reported 4,634 deaths from COVID-19, a figure that has been static for weeks, among 83,064 total cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese industrial city of Wuhan.
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South Korea’s coronavirus success story threatened by surge of new infections.
Health workers are struggling to track transmissions that are spreading quickly and unpredictably as people increase their activities and practice less social distancing.
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North Korea promises election trouble if U.S. ‘pokes’ into tensions with South
The United States should "hold its tongue" and address its own domestic problems unless it wants to "experience a hair-raiser," an official said.
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