South Korea's Lee aims to close ministry for North
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South Korea's new leader wants to ditch the ministry that has long handled relations with the North, have others absorb its functions and shift the way Seoul deals with its prickly neighbor, aides said on Wednesday.
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South Korea's first woman prime minister announced on Monday that she would stand in December's presidential election, seeking to represent left-leaning forces.
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South Korea's army chief  offers to resign, amid growing unease over an investigation into a promotions scandal.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was  leaving for a two-day official visit to Japan on Friday for  summit talks that will focus on the North Korean nuclear  problem and Japan's deteriorating ties with the communist  state.
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South Korea said it plans to crack down on people who demand money for organizing mass-defections of North Koreans. So-called brokers - often Koreans living in China, South Korean
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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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South Korea's unification minister will this week visit a North Korean mountain resort that the United States has labeled a cash cow for Pyongyang's leaders, an official said on Monday.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he would resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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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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SEOUL : South Korea&#39;s foreign minister indicated Friday that prospects had diminished for proposed six-way talks later this month to end North Korea&#39;s nuclear weapons drive.
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Education Secretary Rod Paige intends to leave his Cabinet position, officials said today.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling party has resigned after acknowledging his father was a military police officer for Japan&#39;s occupying forces in Korea.
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The head of South Korea&#39;s governing party has resigned over disclosures that his father collaborated with the Japanese during their occupation more than half a century ago.
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South Korean lawmakers have agreed to spare the ministry responsible for relations with North Korea and reject a call for its closure made by the president-elect, local media reported on Saturday.
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North Korea is seriously considering its  role in talks on its nuclear plans because of what it sees as a  concerted campaign to topple the North's ruling system, the  North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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South Koreans on Wednesday elected as president Lee Myung-bak, a right-wing former CEO vowing to improve the economy and stand up to North Korea, TV exit polls showed.
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South Korea's deputy foreign minister has headed to Washington for talks with US officials on ways to follow up on last week's deal on scrapping North Korea's nuclear programme, his ministry said.