All posts tagged "topstories"

  • North Koreans crossing the Yalu River at the Chinese border in May. An activist group is mapping hundreds of sites where extrajudicial killings or burials are suspected, many close to the border. Credit Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
    Mapping the Brutality of North Korea, and Where the Bodies Are Buried

    By CHOE SANG-HUN https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/world/asia/north-korea-execution-sites.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   SEOUL, South Korea — For two years, from a cramped office in central Seoul, activists and volunteers from five different countries have been doing something never tried before: creating interactive maps of...

    • Posted July 19, 2017
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  • Soldiers in the border-straddling village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, where the two Koreas have often held talks. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times
    South Korea Proposes Military Talks With North at Their Border

    By CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/world/asia/north-korea-south-military-talks.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Monday proposed holding military and humanitarian talks with North Korea, its first visible split with the Trump administration, which has said...

    • Posted July 18, 2017
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  • Foreign Minister Kang Kung-wha (R) shakes hands with the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea Tomas Ojea Quintana before holding a meeting in Seoul on July 17, 2017. (Yonhap)
    FM meets with special rapporteur to discuss human rights in N. Korea

    SEOUL, July 17 (Yonhap) — South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha met with the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Tomas Ojea Quintana, Monday to discuss policies on dealing with the abject human...

    • Posted July 17, 2017
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  • In this Associated Press photo, Park Sung-hyun of South Korea holds up the winner's trophy after capturing the U.S. Women's Open at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on July 16, 2017. (Yonhap)
    U.S. Women’s Open champ Park Sung-hyun soars to No. 5 in world golf rankings

    SEOUL, July 17 (Yonhap) — Thanks to her first LPGA major title at the U.S. Women’s Open, South Korean Park Sung-hyun soared to No. 5 in the latest women’s world rankings announced Monday. Park shot an 11-under...

    • Posted July 17, 2017
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    Top diplomat calls for ambassadors’ support to solve security challenges

    SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) — Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha called on foreign ambassadors based in Seoul on Thursday to help South Korea find a way to solve the gravest-ever security environment on the Korean Peninsula. “Challenges on...

    • Posted July 13, 2017
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    Hyundai to unveil new production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in August

    SEOUL, July 12 (Yonhap) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday that it will unveil a new hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) next month to highlight its strong commitment to green automobiles. South Korea’s No. 1 carmaker...

    • Posted July 13, 2017
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  • From left, bacon carpaccio, pork jowl, chef’s bacon steak, bacon schnitzel, bacon sushi, eggplant rice and fresh pasta at Belly. Credit Alan Winslow for The New York Times
    Belly, a Korean Take on Pork, Opens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Off the Menu By FLORENCE FABRICANT New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/dining/belly-brooklyn-restaurant-openings.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Headliner BELLY Billed as a bacon omakase, the tasting menu here is less about a breakfast strip than about pork belly, cured and uncured, and given a strong...

    • Posted July 11, 2017
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