Feds seek haven for Koreans
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The Canadian government is negotiating to secure passage out of China for 44 North Korean refugees currently seeking asylum at the embassy in Beijing, a foreign
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South Korea has requested more information from the U.S. government about a 1950 letter in which the U.S. ambassador to Seoul told the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
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DONGDUCHON, South Korea  - South Korea mounted  roadblocks and increased security along the Demilitarized Zone  frontier with North Korea on Tuesday after a night patrol found  a hole cut in a border fence, South Korean officials said.
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IBUSUKI - The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea agreed Saturday to work to narrow the lingering perception gap over Japan&#39;s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, while their top leaders wrapped up their two-day meeting with a stroll and a
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought  South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on  Pyongyang's nuclear programs as Seoul stepped up security along  its border with North Korea due to a suspected infiltration.
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Prizing stability above all, Seoul wants Washington to offer more incentives for North Korea's cooperation
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South Korea is seeking independent  verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last  week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a  hydroelectric scheme, Seoul's defense minister said on Tuesday.
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Violent protests staged against the U.S. military presence in South Korea are likely to delay a major realignment of U.S. bases in the country, including the closure of a base in Seoul, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
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South Korea is stepping up security along  the Demilitarized Zone frontier with North Korea after a hole  was found cut in a border fence, the South Korean Defense  Ministry said on Tuesday.
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About 20 men, women and children claiming  to be North Koreans entered the South Korean consulate in  Beijing seeking asylum, South Korea's YTN television said on  Friday.
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BEIJING - The Canadian Embassy in China says it does not expect to hand over any time soon 44 North Korean asylum seekers who entered the compound this week.
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A South Korean delegation arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23 Koreans held hostage by Taliban guerrillas, a South Korean embassy official said.
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A group of 12 North Korean refugees have arrived in the United States to seek asylum, a South Korean activist said Thursday &#151; the largest group from the communist nation to have recently defected there.
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The Bush administration took pains Wednesday to portray as mutually advantageous the impending turnover to the South Koreans of wartime operational control of their country's armed forces.
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Human rights activists who want to take  the lead on bringing North Korean refugees to the South could  end up hurting the people they are trying to help, the South  Korean government said on Wednesday.
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A total of 45 North Korean refugees tried to seek asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, with one person arrested by police and 44 others succeeding, paving the way for their deportation to South Korea.
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It was reported on September 30 that the South Korean government is aggressively reviewing ways of a conditional handover to China of North Korean defectors who used weapons or violence to enter the Korean Embassy in China.