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Articles of the author Al Seoul
Doctors remove needle from lung of former South Korean leader
Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- South Korean doctors removed a 6.5-centimetre acupuncture needle from the lung of former president Roh Tae Woo, the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said Friday, according to dpa. The 78-year-old's family said Roh (...)

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SKorea Fears Ship Hijacked by Somali Pirates
Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- South Korea says one of its container ships may have been hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, as AP reported. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says Hanjin Shipping Co. lost contact with (...)

21 - 04 - 2011
Shipping company says SKorean commandos freed ship
Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- The owner of a South Korean container ship says military commandoes have taken the vessel back from Somali pirates and the crew members are safe, according to AP. Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. spokeswoman Sonya (...)

21 - 04 - 2011
President Obama Wants South Korea FTA Passed This Year - Hillary Clinton
Awwal 13, 1432, April 17, 2011, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the Obama administration was committed to passing a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, and that the pact was ready for review by (...)

17 - 04 - 2011
Hillary Clinton Arrives in Seoul
Awwal 12, 1432, April 16, 2011, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in South Korea to discuss the effort to get North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks, the Associated Press reported. Hillary Clinton arrived in Seoul on (...)

16 - 04 - 2011
Saudi Embassy in South Korea Holds Meeting for Citizens
Awwal 07, 1432, April 11, 2011, SPA -- The Saudi Embassy in South Korea has held here a periodical monthly meeting for Saudi citizens in South Korea. Addressing the meeting, Saudi Ambassador to South Korea Ahmad bin Yunus Al-Barrak has pointed out (...)

11 - 04 - 2011
South Korea to allow first aid shipment to North since attack
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- South Korea on Thursday approved civilian aid to the North for the first time since an attack on one of its islands in November, media reports said, according to dpa. Tuberculosis drugs worth 336 million (...)

31 - 03 - 2011
Traces of Radioactive Iodine Detected in South Korea
Akhir 24, 1432, March 29, 2011, SPA -- South Korean scientists have detected traces of radioactive iodine in the air above Seoul and other parts of the country, news reports said Tuesday. The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety said the particles of (...)

29 - 03 - 2011
Two Koreas Agree on Rare Volcano Talks Next Week
Akhir 19, 1432 H/March 24, 2011, SPA -- South Korea says scientists from the two Koreas will meet next week to discuss joint research into an active volcano extolled in the North as the sacred birthplace of leader Kim Jong Il, as AP reported. The (...)

24 - 03 - 2011
SKorea Agrees to Talk with NKorea on Volcano Study
Akhir 17, 1432, March 22, 2011, SPA -- South Korea on Tuesday accepted North Korea's proposal to hold talks about an active volcano extolled in the North. The proposal North Korea made last week to discuss studies and field surveys of Mount Paektu (...)

22 - 03 - 2011
South Korea and China pledge closer nuclear safety cooperation
Akhir 14, 1432 / March 19, 2011, SPA -- South Korea and China on Saturday pledged to cooperate more closely in future on nuclear safety, in the wake of the crippling of the nuclear plant in Japan following the country's devastating earthquake and (...)

19 - 03 - 2011
S.Korea Rejects North's Offer to Discuss Uranium at Talks
Akhir 12, 1432 / March 17, 2011, SPA -- South Korea's foreign minister on Thursday rejected North Korea's offer to discuss its uranium enrichment programme at a new round of six-party talks, saying it fell far short of what was needed to restart the (...)

17 - 03 - 2011
Saudi Embassy in South Korea Holds Meeting for Citizens
Akhir 09, 1432, March 14, 2011, SPA-- The Saudi Embassy in South Korea has held here a periodical monthly meeting for Saudi citizens in South Korea. Addressing the meeting, Saudi Ambassador to South Korea Ahmad bin Yunus Al-Barrak has pointed out (...)

14 - 03 - 2011
SKorean antitrust watchdog approves bank sale
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- U.S. private equity group Lone Star Funds took a step closer Thursday to achieving its long-sought goal of selling its controlling stake in a once-troubled local lender as South Korea's fair trade watchdog (...)

10 - 03 - 2011
Dozens of South Korean websites attacked
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- Hackers attacked about 40 South Korean government and private websites Friday, prompting officials to warn of a substantial threat to the country's computers, as AP reported. The South's National Cyber (...)

04 - 03 - 2011
SKorea waiting for North to pick up 27 citizens
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- Twenty-seven North Koreans whose boat drifted into southern waters were left waiting Friday near a border village after North Korean officials didn't show up to bring them home, as AP reported. The North asked (...)

04 - 03 - 2011
South says 4 N.Koreans defect, rest to be sent back
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Four of the 31 North Koreans who had drifted across a tensely guarded sea border between the two Koreas have expressed their wish to defect and will not be sent back when the rest are repatriated on Friday, the (...)

03 - 03 - 2011
South Korea's Trade Surplus Reaches $2.8 Billion in February
Awwal 26, 1432, March 01, 2011, SPA -- South Korea's trade surplus reached US$2.84 billion in February mainly due to solid export gains in the face of unfavorable global developments, a government report showed Tuesday. The February trade surplus (...)

01 - 03 - 2011
South Korea, US Begin Annual Drills
Awwal 25, 1432, Feb 28, 2011, SPA -- South Korean and U.S. troops began annual military drills Monday that North Korea warned could trigger a war on the divided peninsula, the Associated Press reported. About 12,800 U.S. troops and some 200,000 (...)

28 - 02 - 2011
North Korea threatens to attack South Korea
Awwal 24, 1432, Feb 27, 2011, SPA -- North Korea threatened Sunday to attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared to start annual joint military drills, according to a report of the Associated Press. On Sunday, the North used (...)

27 - 02 - 2011
S. Korea, U.S. to Hold Second Round of Nuclear Cooperation Talks Next Week
Awwal 22, 1432 H/Feb 25, 2011, SPA -- South Korea and the United States plan to hold a second round of talks in Seoul next week on rewriting a nuclear cooperation pact that bans the Asian nation from reprocessing spent fuel from nuclear power (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Hungry North Korea appears to be stockpiling food
Awwal 22, 1432 H/Feb 25, 2011, SPA -- Impoverished North Korea is headed for another year of sharp food shortages but its multiple requests for aid appear disproportionate, suggesting it wants to stockpile food rather than feed the hungry, officials (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
South Korea Sees "Chance of Military Provocation" from North
Awwal 15, 1432 H/Feb 18, 2011, SPA -- South Korea's prime minister said Friday that North Korea's precarious diplomatic and economic position made renewed attacks a real possibility, as dpa reported. "Seeing the situations in North Korea, there is (...)

18 - 02 - 2011
Record snowfall paralyzes S. Korea coast
Awwal 09, 1432 H/Feb 12, 2011, SPA -- Three and a half feet of snow buried South Korea's east coast Saturday, destroying dozens of houses and stranding drivers, officials said, according to UPI. President Lee Myung-bak ordered the military in to (...)

12 - 02 - 2011
N.Korea confirms foot-and-mouth outbreak
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- North Korea has confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease across the country and lodged the outbreak with the U.N. food agency, according to Reuters. South Korean media reported that the Food and Agriculture (...)

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