Sex slave denial angers S Korea
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South Korea criticises Japan's PM for questioning whether women were forced to be sex slaves in World War II.
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South Koreaâs Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry is stepping up efforts to dispel foreign suspicions over a controversial uranium enrichment experiment by Korean scientists in 2000.
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SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIANS: 23 South Korean Christian aid workers are taken hostage while traveling by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Two of the hostages were shot and two women were freed. The Taliban agree to free the remaining 19 in exchange for a promise from South Korea to end missionary work in Afghanistan and withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year, as previously planned.
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A U.N. human rights investigator accused  secretive North Korea of widespread abuses on Thursday and  urged the communist state to abolish capital punishment and  forced labor, and release political prisoners.
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Some South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan reported being beaten by their Taliban captors for refusing to convert to Islam or for protecting female captives, a hospital chief said Monday.
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan lodged a protest Saturday with North Korea over Pyongyang&#39;s investigations into 10 Japanese citizens whom Tokyo maintains were abducted, and handed over its report concluding that materials provided by the North do not support its
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Japan protested to DPRK on Wednesday after finding the country had provided fake evidence about the fate of Japanese citizens it had abducted.
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The families of Japanese kidnapped  decades ago by North Korean agents lashed out at the secretive  communist state on Monday, saying it had lied about the fate of  their loved ones.
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SEOUL -- By some accounts, it was a disaster of biblical proportions that afflicted North Korea in July.
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The families of Japanese kidnapped decades ago by North Korean agents lashed out at the secretive communist state on Monday, saying it had lied about the fate of their loved ones.
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North Korea has said that intensifying US hostility toward North Korea and the secret nuclear related experiments in South Korea constitute big stumbling blocks.
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South Korea has conducted secret nuclear experiments that violated international nuclear safeguards on a scale wider than what Seoul had declared previously.
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North Korea has again blasted a United Nations resolution criticising its human rights record, but made no mention of South Korea's decision to support the motion.
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As Indonesiaâs former strongman lay on his sickbed this week, the country was by its actions repudiating him.
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North Korea has recalled its ambassador to a Southeast Asian country to protest its role in the secret airlift of more than 460 North Korea refugees to the South, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
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It has only just begun and already South Korea&#39;s program of historical reckoning of the often brutal Japanese occupation and colonization has produced its first victim. With no small amount of irony, it was the chairman of the governing ...
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South Korea's presidential office denied a Taliban claim on Saturday that it had paid a ransom of more than $20 million (9.9 million pounds) for the release of 19 Christian missionaries held hostage in Afghanistan.