UNHCR urges South Korea to repeal security law
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour urged South Korea to repeal its draconian security law, saying the legislation did not meet international standards for human rights protection.
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A law urging more human rights in North Korea passed unanimously by the U.S. Congress showed nuclear talks were meaningless because America was "hell-bent" on toppling the communist state, the North's foreign ministry said.
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South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to act quickly to end its nuclear arms programme when the rival states met for their first high-level talks since Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests last year.
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Astana - Seoul, September 29 KAZINFORM -- North Korea denounced South Korea&#39;s renewed demand for the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program through a multilateral forum, calling it &quot;an act of a thief wielding up a stick.
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South Korea has tightened security at home and overseas after a new threat by the al-Qaida terrorist network against countries supporting the US-led coalition in Iraq.
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A law urging more human rights in North  Korea passed unanimously by the U.S. Congress showed nuclear  talks were meaningless because America was "hell-bent" on  toppling the communist state, the North's foreign ministry  said.
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China should repeal restrictions imposed on lawyers that limit their ability to represent clients with grievances against the government, the group Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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South Korea will call for the removal of hundreds of guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas at a summit of their leaders next week, a leading daily reported on Thursday.
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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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South Koreans held hostage by the Taleban in Afghanistan say they were told at gunpoint to convert to Islam.
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South Korea on Thursday started enforcing a new law aimed at curbing the country&#39;s notorious cyber bullying by preventing Internet users from hiding behind false IDs, company officials said.
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The Consular Office of the South Korean Embassy in Beijing decided on October 25 to consider halting general consular services, owing to a recent flow of North Korean defectors crossing into China and overpopulating the consulateâs temporary housing
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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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The government's own human rights body has recommended to President Hosni Mubarak that he scrap emergency laws he says he needs to fight terrorism, but which have been widely condemned as antidemocratic.
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South Korea's top nuclear negotiator urged North Korea Monday to "have the courage to tell the truth" about its suspected enriched uranium programme, which is slowing down a landmark disarmament process.
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North Korea wants the removal of tall  illuminated church crosses that light up the South Korean sky  and are visible across the border in the secretive communist  state, defense officials from the South said on Monday.
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North Korea wants the United States to  free its overseas bank accounts and for countries to drop  sanctions imposed after Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon,  South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday quoted its envoy  as saying.