Credit to Author: Tim Marcin| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:26:14 +0000
Longtime diplomat Lewis Lukens says the Trump-appointed ambassador, who also owns the NFL team, fired him for telling a positive story about the previous president.
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SEOUL — When Korea was under Japan’s colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, many Koreans lost their houses and land to the Japanese. A significant portion of Korean property was forcefully taken by the Japanese military and sold cheaply to its residents. The fledging Korean government, established in 1948, pledged to retrieve the property from the Japanese […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:31:03 +0000
SEOUL — North Korea has slammed South Korea for the latter’s combined military exercise with the United States, which kicked off Sunday, saying it will not interact with the South until there is a plausible explanation for the “war exercise.” In a Foreign Ministry statement, released a day after it launched what are believed to be short-range […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 08:59:03 +0000
DHAKA — Bangladesh has no objection to India’s plan to fence the entire border between the two countries if it is done following due procedure, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said. “India has already fenced about 80 percent of the border. They want to complete the rest of the work. I said that if it is […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 07:22:39 +0000
The Chinese survey ship that encroached upon Vietnam’s continental shelf reportedly since early July has been withdrawn.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 02:36:58 +0000
Discussions are underway for a foreign ministers’ meeting later this month in Beijing, where South Korea, China and Japan can discuss issues concerning Northeast Asia ahead of a trilateral summit expected to take place before the end of the year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 03:41:33 +0000
A Japanese exhibition featuring a controversial South Korean artwork depicting a wartime sex slave has been cancelled after threats of violence as bilateral ties between the countries fray.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:42:09 +0000
The Chinese army has released a promotional video for its Hong Kong-based troops at a time of uncertainty over whether the military will intervene in the city’s summer of protest.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:34:29 +0000
A 72-year-old South Korean man was in critical condition after setting himself ablaze in downtown Seoul on Thursday, a police official said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:24:35 +0000
Iran’s president lambasted new U.S. sanctions by the Trump administration targeting the country’s foreign minister, describing the move on Thursday as “childish” and a barrier to diplomacy.
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