Новости за 23.02.2017

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SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- Switzerland has severed all science technology cooperation except medicine with North Korea in line with U.N. Security Council sanctions, a U.S. news report said Thursday. The Swiss Cabinet began implementing the punitiv

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SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- Police officers have been assigned to guard the Constitutional Court's eight justices ahead of a highly controversial ruling on President Park Geun-hye's impeachment, a court official said Thursday. The court, which has b

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) --Samsung Electronics Co., the world's top memory chip and smartphone maker, said Thursday it will begin the mass production of the industry's first mobile application processor (AP) built on 10-nanometer FinFET technology.

(ATTN: UPDATES with ground for ruling, reaction from singer's legal representative in paras 5-6) SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court on Thursday upheld the entry ban on a Korean-American singer who has been forbidden to visit South Korea aft

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- The recent assassination of his half-brother shows how vulnerable North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is to potential challenges to his power, a former North Korean spy here said Thursday. "The fact that Kim Jong-un assassina

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- The recent murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother will likely bolster the ongoing move in the United States to add the North to the list of states sponsoring terrorism if Pyongyang is proved to have been inv

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Thursday rejected a request to question North Koreans who defected to the South while working at a restaurant in China last year. The Seoul Administrative Court turned down the request sought by the Lawyer

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- A series of U.N. Security Council sanctions appear to have failed to stop North Korea's weapons exports, a U.S. media outlet said Thursday. In an email interview with Voice of America (VOA), Peter Wezeman, a researcher at

(ATTN: REWRITES lead; ADDS more info throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday rebuffed the results of Malaysia's probe into the death of its leader's half brother, calling Seoul's claim that Pyongyang is behind the incident a con

(ATTN: CHANGES dateline; ADDS more info in last 2 paras) LONDON/SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Wednesday North Korea's apparent killing of the half brother of leader Kim Jong-un will serve as a chance for th

SHANGHAI, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- Malaysia will send its police officers to Macao Thursday to collect DNA samples of the son of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother who was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur last week, media reports said.

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense ministry said Thursday it will expand experimental projects to apply advanced information and communication technologies to military equipment and networks. During a briefing on the "u-experimental

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- Choe Ryong-hae, a senior North Korean party official, has returned to public view after a three-week hiatus, Pyongyang's media report showed Thursday, amid rumors that he may have visited China over the country's missile test

(ATTN: REWRITES headline; ADDS more details throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday condemned Malaysia's investigation into the death of its leader Kim Jong-un's half brother, saying that South Korea's claim that Pyongyang is co

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday condemned Malaysia's investigation into the death of its leader Kim Jong-un's half brother, saying that South Korea's claim that Pyongyang is connected to the incident is a conspiracy against the North

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LONDON, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Wednesday North Korea's apparent killing of the half brother of leader Kim Jong-un will serve as a chance for the international community to take a series of steps against the

(ATTN: UPDATES with State Department refraining from reaction to assassination in last 3 paras) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. senator called Wednesday for adding North Korea back to the State Department list of states spons

By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. senator called Wednesday for adding North Korea back to the State Department list of states sponsoring terrorism, saying the regime's recent assassination of its leader's half brother shows its

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea remains the least favorable country among Americans, with 86 percent viewing the communist nation negatively, a recent Gallup survey has shown. Gallup conducted the annual World Affairs survey on Feb. 1-5

(ATTN: ADDS comments, details, photo) SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean club Jeju United lost to Chinese outfit Jiangsu Suning FC 1-0 in their opening match at the top Asian club football competition on Wednesday. Jiangsu's Brazilian midfield

(ATTN: ADDS details; UPDATES with player's status at bottom) By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- When losing to Kazakhstan 4-0 to open the men's hockey tournament at the Asian Winter Games on Wednesday, South Korean players just couldn'