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North Korea denounced South Korea's spy agency on Sunday for what it said to be "unduly linking" the treason scandal surrounding a pro-North Korean lawmaker with the communist country, adding that it will not tolerate any attempts to hurt the on-going inter-Korean rapprochement mood.The National Intelligence Service (NIS) formally arrested Lee Seok-ki, a legislator of South Korea's minor opposition Unified Progressive Party (UPP), and three other members of the so-called Revolutionary Organizati

South Korea and the United States have completed a draft of a joint military plan that outlines how to handle the North Korean nuclear threat, a government source said Sunday. South Korean and U.S. officials have prepared a customized deterrence plan over the last 10 months, which will be signed at the Security Consultative Meeting between the two nation's defense chiefs slated for Oct. 2, the source said. "The deterrence plan can be considered equivalent to an operational plan," another source

South Korea is getting "safe haven status" from foreign investors as its current account surplus and the accumulated foreign reserves are serving as defense against possible cross-border capital flight, experts said Sunday.South Korea used to suffer from massive foreign capital outflows whenever a financial crisis cropped up. But Asia's fourth-largest economy is now differentiating itself from other emerging countries such as India and Indonesia which are struggling to curb capital outflows and

HANOI -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Vietnam on Saturday for a five-day state visit that she plans to use as the starting point for her "sales diplomacy" drive.The highlight of the trip is a summit with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on Monday. Park plans to use the meeting as the starting point for her "sales diplomacy" while trying to expand all-around cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation, officials said.Key topics for her discussions include how to forge a mut

Two South Korean male filmmakers tied the knot in central Seoul Saturday, marking the first public wedding in the country for a gay couple.Film director and producer Kimjo Gwang-soo, 48, and 29-year-old Kim Seung-hwan, the head of gay film distributor Rainbow Factory, got married on a temporary stage built near Cheonggye Stream with about 1,000 guests and citizens in attendance.South Korea does not legally recognize gay marriages."I found out I was gay when I was 15 and I prayed to God everyday

SYDNEY -- Conservative challenger Tony Abbott declared Australia "under new management" Saturday as voters ended six years of tumultuous Labor rule, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd conceding election defeat and vacating his party's leadership.With more than 90 percent of the vote counted, the Australian Electoral Commission said Abbott's Liberal/National coalition was heading for a landslide win, leading in 90 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, to Labor's 55.Abbott, a former trainee

PARIS -- The United States and France said Saturday that international backing was growing for military strikes to punish the Syrian regime for an alleged chemical attack, after European Union nations called for a "strong" response. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the number of countries ready to take military action was now in the "double digits", after earlier attending a meeting where EU foreign ministers united to call for action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.The EU

TOKYO -- Cheers and shouts of ``Banzai!!'' echoed across Tokyo just after sunrise as thousands of people started celebrating the city's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, beating rivals Istanbul and Madrid despite concerns about a nuclear plant leaking radioactive water. A slight favorite ahead of the International Olympic Committee's vote in Beunos Aires, Argentina, Japan's capital defeated Istanbul 60-36 in the final round. Madrid was eliminated in the first round.  More than 1,200 dign

Pakistan said Saturday it would free seven Afghan Taliban prisoners including a senior commander to help reconciliation efforts in the neighbouring country.   Afghan President Hamid Karzai Karzai urged Islamabad in August to help set up talks with rebels allegedly based in Pakistan.   The Foreign Ministry named the captive Taliban militants as commander Mansoor Dadullah, Said Wali, Abdul Manan, Karim Agha, SherAfzal, Gul Muhammad and Muhammad Zai.   It said they were being released in addition t

Voters across the Maldives came out in force Saturday to vote in an election that could see the honeymoon islands' first elected leader return to power, a year after being toppled.Long queues formed outside polling booths before voting started under bright sunshine across the Indian Ocean archipelago, with the incumbent President Mohamed Waheed among the first to vote.   Waheed came to power in February 2012 when the first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was forced from office

NASA successfully launched an unmanned lunar orbiter from its facility on Wallops Island, Va., Friday night.The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer lifted into space aboard a Minotaur V rocket at 11:27 p.m. EDT, NASA said in a posting on its website.The robotic LADEE's mission will orbit the moon to gather information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust, NASA said.Once the spacecraft arrives near the moon, it will perform

The newly restored cross-border hotline with North Korea is operating smoothly, South Korean officials said Saturday, months after it was disconnected amid heightened geopolitical tensions on the peninsula earlier in the year.    The previous day's restoration of the military hotline on their west coast came as the two Koreas are working toward reopening a shuttered joint industrial park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong. The North severed the line in late March amid heightened tensions