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Buddhist monks from South and North Korea held a joint ceremony at a temple in the communist country Saturday in a continuation of civic exchanges between the nations despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.
A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself, officials said.
A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.
About 200 South Koreans rallied Saturday to protest a government plan to send troops to Afghanistan, days ahead of a visit to Seoul by President Barack Obama.
South Korean police and fire officials on Sunday investigated the cause of a fire that raced through an indoor shooting gallery, killing 10 people including eight Japanese tourists.
North Korea offered a rare apology Wednesday for unleashing dam water causing floods downstream blamed for six South Korean deaths and promised to alert Seoul to such measures in the future, an official said.
Hundreds of family members separated for half a century by the Korean War bade tearful farewell to each other Monday after briefly reuniting under a program resumed amid warming ties between the North and South.
A North Korean dam was nearly full before a large amount of water was released without warning earlier this month, causing a deadly river surge in South Korea, a news report said Sunday.
North Korea withdrew its demand for a hefty wage hike for its workers at a joint industrial complex with South Korea, the latest conciliatory gesture that could help revive reconciliation on the divided peninsula.
The body of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has been transported to the National Assembly, where it will lie in state until his funeral Sunday.
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Some 100,000 performers flipped and twirled in perfect synchronicity as North Korea's most lavish spectacle, the "Mass Games," opened in Pyongyang, footage from television news agency APTN showed.
South Korea's president said Friday the country is "doing everything it can" to win the release of its citizens detained in North Korea, after former President Bill Clinton brought home two American journalists.
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A Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in communist North Korea, was publicly executed last month for the crime, South Korean activists said Friday.
Teams of North Korean agents known as "109 squads" are sweeping through border towns at night, arresting smugglers and confiscating banned South Korean videos and music amid concerns about the popularity of soap operas from Seoul, a think tank said Thursday.
North Korea hinted Friday it could unilaterally raise fees paid by South Korea for the operation of their joint industrial complex, a development that could doom the symbol of reconciliation amid frayed relations between the two nations.
Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday's ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high security at the fenced compound hinted at a different kind of induction.
North and South Korea held a new round of talks Thursday on their troubled joint industrial complex, including Seoul's demand that a detained South Korean worker be freed, though there was no apparent progress.
A North Korean ship monitored for more than a week by the U.S. Navy has changed course and is heading back the way it came, U.S. officials said, as Pyongyang warned Wednesday it will take military action if anyone attempts to search its vessels.
The decision on who will become North Korea's next leader may not be final despite reports that Kim Jong Il has tapped his youngest son to succeed him, South Korea's defense chief said.
After repudiating negotiations on dismantling its plutonium-based nuclear program, North Korea admitted this month to having an even more worrying way to make bombs.
North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites.
South Korean pop star and actor Rain has settled a civil suit over a canceled concert in the United States, reports said Wednesday.
The biggest symbol of reconciliation between North and South Korea — a lucrative joint industrial park — faces doom after Pyongyang on Thursday demanded a 3,000 percent increase in rent for the site, a figure one businessman called "nonsense."
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