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Women's hockey: India edge past South Korea to take 2-0 lead in five-match series
Hockey | Mar 06, 2018, 04:52 PM ISTThe South Koreans came from behind twice in the match but India had the last laugh as they kept their nerves to register a 3-2 win on Tuesday.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Seoul envoys have 'openhearted talk'
World | Mar 06, 2018, 06:48 AM ISTNorth Korea's state media said Kim expressed his desire to "write a new history of national reunification" during a dinner on Monday night that Seoul said lasted about four hours.
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South Korean prosecutors demand 30 years jail for ousted President Park Geun-hye
World | Feb 27, 2018, 12:15 PM ISTPark, 66, was indicted in April 2017, on 18 counts of corruption, including bribery, abuse of power and leaking state secrets.
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PM at India-Korea Business Summit: Working on transforming India from informal to formal economy
Business | Feb 27, 2018, 11:25 AM ISTThe theme of the Summit this year is “India-Korea: Scaling up the Special Strategic Relationship through Trade and Investments”.
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North Korea willing to talk to US, says South Korea's presidential office
World | Feb 25, 2018, 07:03 PM ISTThe North’s delegation also agreed that “South-North relations and U.S.-North Korean relations should be improved together,” South Korea's presidential office said.
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North Korea cancelled meeting with VP Mike Pence at last minute during Winter Games: US
World | Feb 21, 2018, 07:47 AM ISTA potential meeting between Pence and the North Koreans had been the most highly anticipated moment of the vice president’s visit to Pyeongchang, South Korea, where he led the U.S delegation to the opening ceremonies.
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S Korean PM hosts lunch for high-ranking N Korean delegation
World | Feb 11, 2018, 11:23 AM ISTAccording to the Prime Minister's Office , Lee hosted the luncheon from noon at a hotel in eastern Seoul. reports Xinhua news agency.
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Combined Korean hockey team makes historic Olympic debut
World | Feb 10, 2018, 10:05 PM ISTThe debut against Switzerland came just 24 hours after an extraordinary opening ceremony a few miles away was marked by signs of unity between the two rivals.
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North Korea invites South Korean President Moon Jae-in for summit in Pyongyang
World | Feb 10, 2018, 03:29 PM ISTThe verbal message to come at a “convenient time” from dictator Kim Jong Un, delivered by his visiting little sister, Kim Yo Jong, is part of a sudden rush of improving feelings between the rivals during the Pyeongchang Olympics.
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Kim Jong Un's sister smiles on arrival in South Korea for Winter Olympics
World | Feb 09, 2018, 11:26 AM ISTThe North Korean delegates briefly met a group of South Korean officials, including Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, who greeted them at the airport, according to the ministry.
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North Korea cancels joint event with South ahead of Winter Olympics
World | Jan 29, 2018, 10:11 PM ISTThe two countries had been due to stage the event at North Korea's Mount Kumgang on February 4 - just days before the Games in Pyeongchang get underway.
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37 perish in South Korean hospital blaze
World | Jan 26, 2018, 11:33 PM ISTAuthorities revised the death toll from 41, saying some victims were counted twice. Still, the toll could rise further as 18 of the injured were critical, an official was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.
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41 killed, over 80 injured in deadly fire at South Korea hospital
World | Jan 26, 2018, 12:18 PM ISTVideos posted on social media showed a patient hanging on to a rope dangling from a helicopter above the hospital in Miryang, and another crawling out of a window to climb down a ladder.
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North, South Korea hockey players team up for Winter Games
World | Jan 25, 2018, 03:58 PM ISTA dozen North Korean hockey players wearing white-and-red winter parkas crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea earlier Thursday, as about 30-40 conservative activists shouted anti-Pyongyang slogans at a nearby border area.
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US blacklists North Korea business interests in China, Russia
World | Jan 25, 2018, 08:43 AM ISTThe sanctions have been tightened significantly in the past year as Kim Jong Un's government accelerates toward perfecting a nuclear weapon that can threaten the US mainland.
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Nuclear tension eases in Korean peninsula as two nations agree march together at Winter Olympics opening
World | Jan 17, 2018, 08:19 PM ISTNuclear-armed Pyongyang agreed last week to take part in next month’s Pyeongchang Games which are taking place just 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the peninsula.
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North Korea scoffs at Donald Trump’s ‘nuclear button’ tweet
World | Jan 16, 2018, 03:22 PM ISTRodong Sinmun, the ruling party newspaper, lashed out at Trump in a commentary on Tuesday that took issue with the U.S. commander in chief’s Jan. 3 tweet that “I too have a Nuclear Button".
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North Korea threatens Olympics pull out after South praises US role in inter-Korean talks
World | Jan 15, 2018, 07:00 AM ISTNorth Korea warned South that "they should know that train and bus for carrying our delegation to the Olympics are still in Pyongyang."
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Post earning a ticket to 2018 Winter Olympics, Indian-origin Dutch skater in quest to meet biological mom
Trending | Jan 12, 2018, 03:43 PM ISTDas secured her place at the Olympic Games for the first time in late December, after defying the odds to qualify in the Dutch qualification trials.
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Donald Trump open to US-North Korea talks ‘under right circumstances’
World | Jan 11, 2018, 12:00 AM ISTWhite House said Trump and Moon Jae-in still underscored the importance of continuing maximum pressure campaign against North Korea over its development of nuclear weapons.