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Hyundai gets $300M deal from Kazakhstan

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- South Korea's Hyundai Corp. Tuesday announced a $300 million deal to provide subway trains and equipment to Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan. The Korean trading company said Almaty officials are...

SKorea's Lee says he welcomes US-NKorea summit

South Korea's president would welcome a meeting between U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il if it could reduce tension on the peninsula over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, a news report said.

Report: NKorea founder opposed nuclear weapons

North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung swore to Beijing in the 1960s that he opposed the development of nuclear weapons, a report said Monday, citing a newly declassified Chinese document. In a letter Kim wrote to then-Chinese...

SKorea reviews ban on homosexuality in the military (AFP)

AFP/File – File photo shows South Korean Air Force cadets on parade during their graduation ceremony in Cheongju. … SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea's defence ministry has asked the country's Constitutional Court to uphold a ban on...

USFK DEPUTY COMMANDER TO TAKE OFFICE IN S KOREA NEXT WEEK

SEOUL, Nov 17, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- The new deputy commander of U.S. troops stationed in Korea will assume his new post next week with a change of command ceremony, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) public affairs office...

BUDDHISTS MAKE PEACE WITH S KOREA'S LEE ADMINISTRATION

SEOUL, Nov 17, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Deciding to repair what had become an awkward relationship with the incumbent administration over the past four months, the head of South Korea's largest Buddhist sect officially...

North Korea's Kim appears at naval show

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made another public appearance at a military arts festival, the Communist country's official news agency reported Sunday. The Korean Central News Agency...

North Korea's Kim appears at naval show

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made another public appearance at a military arts festival, the Communist country's official news agency reported Sunday.The Korean Central News Agency report monitored by South Korea's Yonhap...

NEW N. KOREAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAN APPOINTED: REPORT

SEOUL, Nov 17, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- North Korea has appointed a new ambassador to Iran, a North Korean radio broadcaster monitored in Seoul reported Sunday. "An order given by the standing committee of the Supreme...

COURT ORDERS 'D-WAR' PRODUCER TO RETURN 500 MLN WON TO INVESTOR

SEOUL, Nov 17, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- The producers of "D-War," a fantasy blockbuster that topped South Korea's box office in 2007, have broken a distribution contract with a local investor and should return its money,...

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