All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye's close friend, speaks at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on May 31, 2017, after being extradited from Denmark a day earlier. The 21-year-old Chung, who had been held at a detention center in the northern Danish city of Aalborg since January, was taken to the prosecutors' office in Seoul for questioning over allegations she received undue academic and financial favors based on her mother Choi Soon-sil's ties with the former president. (Yonhap)
    Choi’s daughter extradited to S. Korea to face probe into scandal

    SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) — The daughter of former President Park Geun-hye’s close friend involved in a corruption scandal returned to South Korea on Wednesday after she was extradited from Denmark where she was in custody for...

    • Posted May 31, 2017
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  • Vice Admiral Jim Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency
    Successful ICBM interceptor test shows U.S. can outpace missile threats through 2020: official

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, May 31 (Yonhap) — The successful shootdown of an intercontinental ballistic missile target in this week’s interceptor test shows the United States can “outpace” foreign missile threats through 2020, the U.S. missile defense...

    • Posted May 31, 2017
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  • South Korean idol group BTS poses for the camera at a press conference on May 29, 2017, held at the Lotte Hotel in central Seoul. (Yonhap)
    BTS salutes K-pop heroes for paving way for Billboard victory

    SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) — K-pop group BTS, the second-ever South Korean artist to win at the Billboard Music Awards, on Monday thanked former Korean pop legends for paving the way for K-pop to become a global...

    • Posted May 30, 2017
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  • Bae Doona and Cho Seung-woo, stars of tvN's upcoming TV series "Stranger" pose for the camera at a press conference on May 30, 2017, at the Imperial Palace Hotel in southern Seoul. (Yonhap)
    TV show ‘Stranger’ deals with prosecutor corruption in minute detail

    SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) — In recent years, there has been a flood of TV shows and movies that deal with corruption by prosecutors, such as “The King,” “Inside Men” and “Defendant.” And now tvN, albeit better...

    • Posted May 30, 2017
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  • Students at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in 2011. The North Korean school is staffed with volunteer Christian professors, many of them American. Credit David Guttenfelder/Associated Press
    Christian-Backed School Teaches Scions of the Elite in Atheist North Korea

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/world/asia/north-korea-university-christian-evangelical.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea — Set on 250 sprawling acres in North Korea’s capital, the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology obeys the rules of the Kim family cult. Atop its main building, large...

    • Posted May 29, 2017
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  • The medium-range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2, shown in this undated image, was tested recently at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The North has successfully tested solid-fueled missiles four times. Credit Korean Central News Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency
    North Korean Tests Add Urgency for U.S. to Fix Defense Flaws

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/us/politics/north-koreas-missiles-us-defense.html?mcubz=0 By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD WASHINGTON — As the Pentagon prepares to conduct its first test in three years of the multibillion-dollar effort to intercept a North Korean warhead, it hopes to demonstrate...

    • Posted May 29, 2017
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  • Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz presents President Trump with his nation’s highest civilian honor. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
    How Saudi Arabia played Donald Trump

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/saudi-arabia-just-played-donald-trump/2017/05/25/d0932702-4184-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html?utm_term=.a5eb4d9115e8 By Fareed Zakaria This week’s bombing in Manchester, England, was another gruesome reminder that the threat from radical Islamist terrorism is ongoing. And President Trump’s journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the country...

    • Posted May 26, 2017
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