All posts tagged "US"

  • This satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia shows the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia)
    US believes N. Korea has secret nuclear facilities

    WASHINGTON/SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to have secret nuclear facilities unknown to the outside world in addition to those at the country’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex, the State Department said in a report....

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • Los Angeles' Koreatown is a popular destination for those visiting from South Korea. (Korea Times file)
    US renews visa waiver program for S. Koreans

    SEOUL, June 5 (Yonhap) — The United States has extended a visa waiver program for South Korea for two years again, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. It would enable South Koreans to continue to travel to the...

    • Posted June 5, 2015
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    US, S. Korea devise principles against N.Korea missiles

    SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United States have laid out four principles of their operations to effectively counter missile threats by North Korea, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Tuesday. The principles “will guide...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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  • S. Korea, U.S. start joint anti-submarine naval drill

    SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United States have kicked off a joint anti-submarine naval drill to tackle North Korea’s threats, sparked by the North’s test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Navy officials said...

    • Posted June 1, 2015
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  • North Korean spectators watch from the stands of Kim Il-sung Stadium as runners line up at the start of the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
    [UPI] New York marathoners marvel at clean, friendly North Korea

      PYONGYANG, North Korea (UPI) — For Stephen Forman, North Korea’s Mangyongdae Prize Marathon was the best course he had run in his years as an amateur athlete. “The course itself was flat, the weather was...

    • Posted May 31, 2015
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  • Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
    Human error likely not cause of anthrax mistake: Army chief

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Human error probably was not a factor in the Army’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to numerous U.S. government and commercial laboratories in the U.S. and in South Korea, the Army’s top general...

    • Posted May 28, 2015
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  • Anthrax bacteria test (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
    USFK says 22 personnel may have been exposed to anthrax sample

    SEOUL/WASHINGTON, May 28 (Yonhap) — Dozens of personnel may have come in contact with a live anthrax sample that was accidentally sent to an American military base in South Korea, but none of them have shown signs...

    • Posted May 28, 2015
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