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North Korea team at World Cup 2010

North Korea bring with them memories of 1966, but remain an unknown quantity at World Cup 2010. Balancing act: North Korea players, bound for World Cup 2010, in training Photo: REUTERS The Coach: Kim Jong-Hun (North Korean). WC...

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South Korea team at World Cup 2010

South Korea qualified easily for a seventh consecutive World Cup, but they lack the firepower to hurt the big beasts. The good times: South Korea reached the World Cup semi-finals on home soil in 2002 Photo: EPA South Korea...

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Vidic poised for United return

Nemanja Vidic should return to the heart of Manchester United's defence for Saturday's Premier League encounter with Everton at Old Trafford. The Serbian has been struggling with a calf injury recently, but he came through his...

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Action sequences

Americans should take more of an interest in places where wars aren't happening JOHN JUDIS had a nice comparison in the New Republic of coverage of Barack Obama's South Korea visit in two American newspapers, on the one hand,...

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Breaking the Pyongyang pattern

U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reaffirmed in Seoul on Thursday that they will seek a "definite and comprehensive resolution" to the North Korean nuclear issue. Mr. Obama urged the North to...

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World › Top S Korean model found hanged in Paris apartment

Saturday 21st November, 05:19 AM JST PARIS — A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday. Daul Kim...

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World › Saipan reels after deadly shooting

Saturday 21st November, 05:24 AM JST SEOUL — The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Friday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and...

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U.S. troops in S. Korea may be redeployed

SEOUL, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Some U.S. troops stationed in South Korea likely will be re-deployed to Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said while in the Asian country. Obama's comment was made Thursday when he spoke to U.S....

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Last man to lead bayonet charge dies

LOMA LINDA, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Retired Army Col. Lewis L. Millett, 88, a Medal of Honor winner for leading what reportedly was the last major bayonet charge, has died, the Pentagon said. Millett died in Loma Linda,...

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Sports › Lee looking forward to challenge with Softbank

Saturday 21st November, 04:54 AM JST MIYAZAKI — South Korean third baseman Lee Bum Ho said Friday he is relishing the prospect of testing himself against Japan’s top hurlers after being unveiled by the Softbank Hawks. ‘‘I feel...

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