South Korea
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State news agency insists leader’s half-brother died of heart attack not poisoning, and blames South Korea for ‘conspiratorial racket’
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Visit by James Mattis comes despite suggestions by Donald Trump that he could cut US military presence in region
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North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to London Thae Yong-ho talks to the press at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul in South Korea
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Former deputy ambassador to London Thae Yong-ho says dissent and criticism of the regime is becoming more frequent
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Existential despair and dreamlike descriptions of nature abound in these poems by fierce feminist and iconic Korean poet Choi Seung-ja
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Interior ministry takes site offline after being accused of trying to blame women for the country’s low birth rate
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South Korean and Chinese officials voice their anger over the visit of Japanese defence minister Tomomi Inada to Yasukuni, a controversial war shrine
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South Korea protests as Tomomi Inada, Japan’s defence minister, pays homage at Yasukuni memorial where those honoured include leaders of wartime atrocities
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The International Drone Robot Contest is taking place in Incheon in South Korea
Life expectancy forecast to exceed 90 years in coming decades