South Korea top spy to reveal hostage deal "later"
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South Korea's spy chief has refused to deny his government paid a ransom to the Taliban to release 19 hostages last week, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will on Wednesday start releasing the 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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A South Korean man was arrested and  charged with spying for South Korea and obtaining information  from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on  Thursday.
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The British CBS journalist and Iraqi interpreter kidnapped in Basra will be released later today, according to news wire reports. By Stephen Brook
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A former president of South Korea gave a tacit nod to a 1973 secret operation to kidnap Kim Dae-jung, then a dissident leader who later became a Nobel peace laureate and the first opposition-backed president, a government panel said Wednesday.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will on Wednesday start releasing 19 South Korean Christian volunteers kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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Nineteen newly freed South Korean hostages were expected to fly out of the Afghan capital on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama, sources close to the arrangements said, after a deal critics fear could spur more abductions.
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The name of South Korea's first astronaut &#151; who will fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year &#151; will be announced Wednesday, an official said.
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NEGOTIATIONS for the release of Iraq hostage Kenneth Bigley are to begin between his captors and militants acting as intermediaries, it was claimed last night.
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South Korean officials and Taleban militants are to hold talks on the release of 19 hostages, officials say.
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North Korea plans to seal the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in the second half of July, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified North Korean diplomatic source.
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Taleban militants holding 23 South Koreans hostage in Afghanistan extend the deadline for reaching a deal.
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South Korea's spy chief made an unannounced visit to North Korea on the eve of his country's presidential election last month, an official said Friday.
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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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Taliban militants agreed Tuesday to release 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage for six weeks after Seoul reaffirmed a pledge to withdraw its troops by year's end and prevent Christian missionaries from working in Afghanistan.
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Taliban insurgents will release all 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have held hostage in Afghanistan since mid-July, South Korea's presidential Blue House said on Tuesday.
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday.