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Seoul rejects North Korea’s peace offer
Jan 17, 2014
South Korea on Friday brushed off the North’s offer of reconciliation through the cessation of slander and military drills with the U.S., calling for action toward denuclearization to prove its sincerity. Pyongyang’s powerful National Defense Commission made the “crucial proposals” late Thursday, which also included taking a “mutual practical measure to prevent a nuclear holocaust.” Such steps would help resolve inter-Korean issues such as reunions of separated families, it said. Seoul’s Unifica
Indian PM says delayed Korean steel plant to open soon
Jan 16, 2014
NEW DELHI (AFP) -- Indian premier Manmohan Singh Thursday said a mega steel plant being built by South Korean multinational Posco would become operational in the coming weeks, allaying fears of further delays in the project.Singh gave his assurances on the $12-billion plant, India's biggest foreign investment project, to visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye during their meeting in New Delhi."I conveyed to President Park our hope that this project will confirm that economic growth and en
Korea, India agree to upgrade trade pact, diplomatic relations
Jan 16, 2014
Both sides agree to end double taxation, speed up CEPA revision
3 lawmakers lose seats as court confirms prison terms
Jan 16, 2014
The nation’s top court on Thursday confirmed prison terms and penalties for three sitting lawmakers for illegal electioneering ahead of the 2012 general elections, stripping them of their parliamentary seats.Lee Jae-young of the ruling Saenuri Party was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, for embezzling money from a company he runs and using it to give money to party officials, in violation of the Public Official Election Act.In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court sentence
President seeks nuclear tie-up on India trip
Jan 15, 2014
Park to hold summit with Singh Thursday
Lawmakers to invite ex-Japanese P.M. for lecture
Jan 15, 2014
South Korean lawmakers are seeking to invite a former Japanese prime minister known for his apology to victims of Japan’s past aggressions to speak about ways to move the two countries’ relations forward, a parliamentary official said Wednesday.Tomiichi Murayama, the then Japanese prime minister, issued a statement in 1995 acknowledging and apologizing for the suffering his country inflicted on neighboring Asian nations, including Korea, through its aggressions in the early 20th century.Amid sig
S. Korean lawmakers seek to invite ex-Japanese PM for lecture
Jan 15, 2014
South Korean lawmakers are seeking to invite a former Japanese prime minister known for his apology to victims of Japan's past aggressions to speak about ways to move the two countries' relations forward, a parliamentary official said Wednesday.Tomiichi Murayama, the then Japanese prime minister, issued a statement in 1995 acknowledging and apologizing for the suffering his country inflicted on neighboring Asian nations, including Korea, through its aggressions in the early 20th century.Amid sig
Park urges Japan to honor past apologies
Jan 14, 2014
President Park Geun-hye urged Japanese leaders to make clear they honor the country’s past apologies for its colonial rule of Korea and not to engage in any acts that put their intentions into question.Park made the remarks during an interview Monday with CNN, saying the past apologies, known as the “Kono statement” and the “Murayama statement” named after former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono and former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, have been the basis of relations between the two sides
Virginia’s legislative committee OKs bill on East Sea name
Jan 14, 2014
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) ― A U.S. state legislative committee on Monday passed a bill on naming the waters between Korea and Japan despite Tokyo’s lobbying against it.The bill is one of three pending in the Virginia state legislature calling for local public schools to identify the waters as the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan.The Education and Health Committee of the Virginia State Senate unanimously approved the bill by voice vote. It was submitted by Dave Marsden, a Democratic senator in Virg
Virginia's legislative committee OKs bill on East Sea name
Jan 14, 2014
A U.S. state legislative committee on Monday passed a bill on naming the waters between Korea and Japan despite Tokyo's lobbying against it. The bill is one of three pending in the Virginia state legislature calling for local public schools to identifying the waters as the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan. The Education and Health Committee of the Virginia State Senate unanimously approved the bill by voice vote. It was submitted by Dave Marsden, a Democratic senator in Virginia. Last
China blasts Japan's reported plan to bolster territorial claims
Jan 13, 2014
China on Monday slammed a reported plan by Japan to revise guidelines for school textbooks to bolster its territorial claims to a set of islands in the East China Sea at the center of a bitter dispute with Beijing.China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks in response to Japanese media reports that Tokyo was considering revising the guidelines to describe the islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, as Japan's "indigenous territory."The reported move by Jap
Pentagon guarded about Korea's return of Japanese ammo in S. Sudan
Jan 13, 2014
Pentagon officials often say defense cooperation between South Korea and Japan shouldn't be affected by often prickly political and diplomatic ties between the two neighboring nations.But they were guarded, if not speechless, when South Korean peacekeeping troops in South Sudan returned 10,000 rounds of rifle ammunition to Japan last week."We don't have anything on that issue," Maj. Robert Firman, a Pentagon spokesman handling Africa affairs, said.Asked again via email, he replied, "Still nothin
Orbital's cargo ship makes rendez-vous with space station: NASA
Jan 12, 2014
WASHINGTON, (AFP) -- Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship on Sunday made rendez-vous with the International Space Station on the company's first regular supply mission to the research outpost.The event took place at 1108 GMT just northeast of Madagascar over the Indian Ocean, according to the US space agency NASA's television network.Once Cygnus approached the orbiting lab, the space station's robotic arm reached out and grabbed the incoming cargo carrier.US astronaut Mike H
Hasina sworn in for 3rd time as Bangladesh PM
Jan 12, 2014
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Sheikh Hasina has been sworn in for her second straight term as Bangladesh's prime minister and third overall, following one of the most violent elections in the country's history.Hasina took the oath of office Sunday, a week after her Awami League party won an election marred by street fighting, low turnout and an opposition boycott that made the results a foregone conclusion.President Abdul Hamid also swore in 29 Cabinet ministers and 19 deputies.The election was one
Gay 'prisoner of conscience' dies in Cameroon
Jan 12, 2014
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) -- A lawyer says a gay man in Cameroon who was jailed for sending a text message to another man saying "I'm very much in love with you," and who Amnesty Interational later declared a prisoner of conscience, has died.Lawyer Alice Nkom said Roger Jean-Claude Mbede, 34, died on Friday after his family removed him from the hospital where he had been seeking treatment for a hernia.Mbede was arrested in March 2011 and charged with violating a Cameroonian law that imposes up to f
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