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  South Korean prosecutors demand 30 years jail for ousted President Park Geun-hye

  World | February 27, 2018 12:15 IST

  Park, 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 | February 27, 2018 11:25 IST

  The 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 | February 25, 2018 19:03 IST

  The 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 | February 21, 2018 7:47 IST

  A 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 | February 11, 2018 11:23 IST

  According 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 | February 10, 2018 22:05 IST

  The 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 | February 10, 2018 15:29 IST

  The 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 | February 09, 2018 11:26 IST

  The 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 | January 29, 2018 22:11 IST

  The 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 | January 26, 2018 23:33 IST

  Authorities 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 | January 26, 2018 12:18 IST

  Videos 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 | January 25, 2018 15:58 IST

  A 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 | January 25, 2018 8:43 IST

  The 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 | January 17, 2018 20:19 IST

  Nuclear-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 | January 16, 2018 15:22 IST

  Rodong 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 | January 15, 2018 7:00 IST

  North 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 | January 12, 2018 15:43 IST

  Das 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 | January 11, 2018 0:00 IST

  White 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.

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  After Olympic deal, South Korea floats summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un

  World | January 10, 2018 11:07 IST

  President Moon Jae-in has previously floated the idea of a summit with Kim under conditions.

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  North Korea offers to send a delegation to the Winter Games in South

  World | January 09, 2018 12:33 IST

  During the talks, the North Korean delegation said it would send an Olympic delegation, which includes officials, athletes, cheerleaders, journalists and others, South Korea’s Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung told reporters