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India, SKorea to expand political, security and trade ties

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India and South Korea on Sunday decided to expand their political and security cooperation besides upgrading the already booming business ties to achieve an ambitious trade target of USD 40 billion by

North Korea, Iran to loom large over nuclear summit

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World leaders including US President Barack Obama on Monday will launch a summit on the threat from nuclear-armed terrorists, but the atomic ambitions of North Korea and Iran are set to feature heavil

North Korea's planned rocket test: Why it matters

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North Korea may have the bomb, but it hasn't perfected ways to put one onto a missile that could strike faraway enemies like the United States.

This is why Pyongyang's announcement that it will launc

US military jet crashes in S Korea, pilot safe

A US military F-16 jet crashed in southern South Korea on Tuesday during a training mission but its pilot ejected to safety, US authorities said.

The plane crashed into a rice paddy around noon (083

N. Korea invites observers to satellite launch

North Korea said on Saturday it would invite foreign experts and journalists to observe a satellite launch which the United States and other countries see as a disguised missile test.

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N.Korea rocket launch would be provocative: Seoul

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North Korea's plan to launch a long-range rocket would breach a United Nations resolution and be a 'grave, provocative act', South Korea said on Friday.

The North announced earlier in the day that it

Samsung Electronics says to spin off LCD business

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Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it would spin off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business into a separate affiliate as it seeks to orient its component business towards OLED displays, touted as

North Korean accordion players are a YouTube hit

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A group of North Korean accordion players is proving to be an unlikely hit on YouTube, attracting nearly 320,000 viewings in five days with their spirited version of a 1980s pop song.

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Amnesty urges release of S. Korean Twitter user

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Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday urged the release of a South Korean activist accused of helping the ‘enemy’ by re-tweeting messages from North Korea's official Twitter account.

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S. Korea's embattled ruling party changes its name

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South Korea's conservative ruling party changed its name on Thursday to try to shore up sagging support in a key election year, but sceptics called it a cosmetic measure which would fail to impress vo

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