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South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime Korean sex slaves

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers. The deal, which […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2016, Associated Press, China, Foster Klug, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Korean Peninsula, Mari Yamaguchi, North Korea, Northeast Asian, SEOUL, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

NK uses racial slur on Obama over hack

January 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at President Barack Obama over the hacking row involving the movie “The Interview.’’ North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission, which is headed by country leader Kim Jong […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, DPRK, Democratic People, Kim Jong-un, Korean Central News Agency, NK, National Defense Commission, National Security Council, North Korean, Policy Department, President Barack Obama, Sony Pictures, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, State John Kerry, United States

2 Koreas meet for highest level talks in 5 years

October 11, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang’s inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals’ highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in pursuing better ties after months […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Asian Games, Cheong Seong-chang, Choe Ryong Hae, High-level North Korean, Kim Jong-un, Kim Ki Nam, Kim Yang Gon, Korean War-divided, National Defense Commission, North Koreans, Park Geun-hye, Sejong Institute, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, University Games, Vol 33 No 42 | October 11 - October 17, Workers Party

China: Abe not welcome after war shrine visit

January 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Gillian Wong Associated Press BEIJING (AP) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Japan’s prime minister of hypocrisy and said he would not be welcome in China after he visited a shrine honoring Japan’s war dead.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Asia, Associated Press, Beijing, China Abe, Chinese, Foreign Ministry, Hyung-jin Kim, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Junichiro Koizumi, Korean Central News Agency, North Korea, Qin Gang, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 2 | January 4 - January 10, Yasukuni Shrine, commentary

At tail end of trans-Pacific f light, terror

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Terry Collins and Joan Lowy The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After nearly 11 hours in the air, the passengers and crew aboard a jumbo jetliner traveling from Seoul to San Francisco were looking forward to a quick and uneventful landing as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 approached the airport from over San Francisco […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight, Asiana President Yoon Young-doo, Benjamin Levy, British Airways Flight, China Central Television, Chinese, Doug Yakel, Ki Siadatan, Kim Haing, Mike Barr, San Francisco Bay, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, South Koreans, Star Alliance, Vedpal Singh, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19, Ye Mengyuan

NKorean envoy delivers letter to China’s president

June 1, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Beijing, CCTV, China News Service, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Cui Yingjiu, Earlier Friday, Fan Changlong, Foreign Trade Bank, Great Hall, John Delury, North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, United States, Vol 32 No 23 | June 1 - June 7, Yonsei University, letter

Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

May 18, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Cabinet Secretariat, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, China, Elaine Kurtenbach, Far East, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Imperial Army, Japan Communist Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Tomoko Kami, Vol 32 No 21 | May 18 - May 24, WWII, Yasukuni Shrine

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