SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea raised its travel alert level Thursday for
three states in Mali due to ongoing civil unrest and continued kidnappings of

By Lee Chi-dong
PHUKET, Thailand, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan
on Thursday played down North Korea's initial response to an envisioned

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By Lee Chi-dong
PHUKET, Thailand, July 23 (Yonhap) -- A senior North Korean diplomat on Thursday

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SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's health authorities said Thursday they

By Lee Chi-dong
PHUKET, Thailand, July 23 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
criticized Thursday what she called North Korea's anachronistic claim aimed at

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Busan Bank, South Korea's leading provincial lender,
said Thursday its earnings plunged 33.7 percent in the first half of this year

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean defense officials said Thursday they held
working-level talks with their U.S. counterparts to discuss ways to follow up on

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday likened U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton to a "primary schoolgirl" who lacks intelligence and likes

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SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker,

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SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul high court on Thursday upheld a lower court's