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North Korea said to impose Ebola quarantine

By Choe Sang-hun Oct. 31, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — For U.S. health officials fretting over states going their own way on Ebola quarantines, consider this: North Korea, which in the best of times allows a limited number of people in or out, is rattled enough about the virus that it reportedly will quarantine anyone coming into the country from anywhere.

World and Nation

South Korea tears down Christmas tower on border

By Choe Sang-hun Oct. 24, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean marines have dismantled a 43-year-old Christmas tower on the border with North Korea that the North had threatened to attack with artillery, officials here said Wednesday.

World and Nation

North Korea sentences American to 6 years of labor

By Choe Sang-hun Sep. 16, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — The Supreme Court in North Korea on Sunday sentenced one of the three Americans known to be held in the country to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts” against the North.

World and Nation

North Korean officials expel Australian evangelist

By Choe Sang-hun Mar. 4, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday said it had decided to expel an Australian Christian missionary it arrested last month after he apologized for violating North Korean laws.

World and Nation

North Korea displays another captured missionary

By Choe Sang-hun Feb. 28, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean Baptist missionary held in North Korea appeared in a government-arranged news conference in Pyongyang on Thursday, saying that he had plotted to build underground churches in the isolated country to help undermine its government.

World and Nation

North and South Koreans meet in emotional family reunions

By Choe Sang-hun Feb. 21, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — Lee Beom-ju, 86, had little to say at first.

World and Nation

New sanctions imposed on North Korea as it warns of attack

By Rick Gladstone and Choe Sang-hun Mar. 8, 2013

The U.N. Security Council approved new sanctions on Thursday against North Korea for its underground nuclear test last month, in a unanimous vote that came just hours after North Korea threatened for the first time to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea.

World and Nation

Technical glitch delays rocket launching, North Korea says

By Choe Sang-hun Dec. 11, 2012

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday that a technical glitch had been found in the rocket it had planned to launch as early as this week to put a satellite in orbit, but that it still planned to try the launching by the end of the month.

World and Nation

South Korea bars leaflet drop over border with North

By Choe Sang-hun Oct. 23, 2012

SEOUL, South Korea — Activists said Monday that they had succeeded in sending large balloons drifting into North Korea carrying tens of thousands of leaflets, despite South Korean police efforts to block the action and a threat from the North Korean government to retaliate with a military attack.

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