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Seoul

Type: City

Name: Seoul

Latitude: 37.560001

Longitude: 126.989998

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 13 mins ago - 35 reports

N’Korea test-fires new short-range missile

DESPITE appeals from South Korea and the United Nations (UN) chief, Ban Ki-moon, to halt the launches at a time of high tensions, North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast – its fourth in two days.The guided missile was fired ... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - 21 mins ago]

Entities: missile, North Korea, Pyongyang

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 2 reports

Seoul deploys Spike missiles to protect Yellow Sea islands

. MAY 20, 2013 06:47. . The South Korean military said on Sunday that it recently deployed on Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong islands in the Yellow Sea Spike missiles from Israel that can be used for precision strikes on North Korea’s coastal artillery guns. ... [Published Donga.com - 22 mins ago]

Entities: missile, Seoul, Military/Armed Forces, North Korea, South Korea

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 7 reports

North Korea fires short range missiles for second day in a row

More PhotosClick thumbnails to enlarge South Koreans look at the North Korean territory (top) through binoculars at an observation post, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Goseong, about 205 miles northeast of Seoul, May ... [Published Daily Freeman - 6 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, missile, Seoul, Observation Post

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 reports

U.S. rights envoy cancels trip to Seoul

Robert King, U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues, canceled a trip to South Korea, the foreign ministry said yesterday.“Ambassador King has notified us that he canceled his visit to the South,” a South Korean Foreign Ministry official ... [Published Korea Joongang Daily - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Robert King, Seoul, Tokyo, North Korea

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

South Korea: The little dynamo that sneaked up on the world

South Korea, long in the shadow of other Asian 'tiger economies,' is suddenly hip and enormously prosperous – so much so that it may have outgrown its thankless dream of reuniting with the North. For months the young emperor to the north has been threatening ... [Published Christian Science Monitor - 6 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea, North Korea, Pyongyang, Seoul, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 6 reports

Japan PM vows to seek talks with NK over kidnapping

Japan's prime minister vowed Sunday to seek talks with Pyongyang in a bid to settle the nagging issue of North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese, without risking its alliance with Washington and Seoul.Shinzo Abe made the comment after a surprise visit to ... [Published Global Times - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Kidnapping, North Korea, Abduction, Japan, Pyongyang

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 4 reports

Urgent: DPRK fires short-range missile into East Sea: media

SEOUL, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, Yonhap News Agency said quoting a Seoul military official.The launch came a day after the DPRK fired three short-range ... [Published CHINAdaily - 12 hours ago]

Entities: missile, Seoul, North Korea

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 28 reports

North Korea launches three short-range missiles into sea off its eastern coast

SEOUL North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. The tests broke the recent relative silence from the North, but the move was much less provocative than what had ... [Published Boston Globe - 15 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, missile, South Korea, South Korean Defense Ministry

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 9 reports

North Korea Fires Short Range Missiles, Call Off Musudan Test

North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea’s defense ministry said. The tests were conducted in two sessions, two missiles were fired during the morning and one ... [Published Defense Update - 16 hours ago]

Entities: missile, North Korea, South Korea, Nuclear Testing

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 3 reports

Japan speechless on PR chief’s ‘secret’ N.K. trip

Blown mission reveals bid to sidestep trilateral denuclearization strategy for abduction issueKyodoOnline: May 19, 2013Print: May 19, 2013Last Modfied: May 19, 2013The government is keeping mum on a secret visit to North Korea by one of Prime Minister ... [Published Japan Times - May 18 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Japan, Shinzo Abe, Tokyo

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 10 reports

N Korea may have 200 launchers

SEOUL: North Korea is now thought to have around twice as many mobile missile launchers as previously estimated by Seoul, a report said yesterday, quoting a state-run military analysis unit. Yonhap news agency said the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses ... [Published Qatar Peninsula - May 18 2013]

Entities: North Korea, Wenzhou, Homicide, Seoul

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 4 reports

Samsung's Galaxy S4 sales approach 10 million in just a month

SEOUL, May 17 (UPI) --Samsung said it would probably reach that sales milestone next week, even though the S4 has been on sale for just a month."It is selling much faster than the previous model S3," Shin Jong-kyun, Samsung's co-chief executive, said ... [Published UPI - May 17 2013]

Entities: Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Group, Seoul, Smartphone

Quotes

"North Korea fired a short-range missile as it did yesterday into its east sea in the afternoon, " South Korea's news agency Yonhap reported, citing a military official

North Korea fires more short-range missiles [Published Dominion Post - 1 hour ago]

"It is very regrettable that the North denigrates our offer for talks... and shifts blame for the suspension of the Kaesong complex to us." AFP / Reuters

South Korea slams 'provocative' North Korean short-range missile launches [Published ABC Online - 2 hours ago]

"I want to pursue negotiations or dialogue" with North Korea, he told reporters in Fukuoka, southern Japan, according to Japanese media. "I will definitely try to realise the return home of all the kidnap victims, the search for truth behind the cases and the handover of the abductors during the Abe government" he said

Japan PM vows to seek talks over kidnapping [Published Oman Observer - 3 hours ago]

"Once South Korea settles in (to Indonesia), then they will get a lot of their companies in."

Indonesia, S. Korea mark 40 years of ties with pledge to further boost links [Published Business Times Malaysia - 3 hours ago]

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Audio/Video

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