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SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in defended the government's decision to fully deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system here Friday, saying it was an inevitable decision to protect his people from ev

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SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will play against the 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts Russia next month, the national football governing body said Friday. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said the men's national team will take on Russia in Mos

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- Traces of xenon gas, a radionuclide, were detected in South Korea, the nuclear safety agency said Friday, five days after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test. The the radioactive material, the xenon-133 i

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank chief has left for Switzerland to attend a meeting of the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Friday. BOK Gov. Lee Ju-yeol also plans to discuss with his counterpart

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde expected Friday South Korea's economy will continue to grow stably despite security risks stemming from North Korea, the foreign minister here said after their meeting in Se

(ATTN: RECASTS throughout) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ordered the government Friday to compensate a victim of forced labor at a salt farm for its failure to protect him when he escaped and requested police help. The Seoul Central Di

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) on Friday ramped up its claim of a government attempt to control the media, amid a report that the ruling party wrote a plan to oust executives of two broadcasters allegedly in fa

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday. ---------------- (LEAD) Seoul says THAAD necessary to bring N. Korea to dialogue SEOUL -- The temporary deployment of the U.S. missile defense syst

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's women's national ice hockey team will play friendly games with top college teams in the United States starting next week, the sport's national governing body said Friday. The Korea Ice Hockey Association sai

(ATTN: ADDS more info in 5th, last 2 paras) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry has requested the prosecution to probe a senior diplomat in Japan over allegations of chronic verbal abuse and violence against a subordinate, a minis

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry has requested prosecution to probe a senior diplomat in Japan on chronic verbal abuse and violence charges, a ministry official said Friday. The head of a South Korean consulate general in J

SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ordered the government on Friday to pay some 37 million won (US$32,800) in compensation to a victim with intellectual disabilities for being forced to toil at a salt farm and suffering physical abuse by his empl

(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with details; ADDS more info in paras 10, 12-13) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- The torch relay for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics in South Korea will start in March 2018, the event's organizers said Friday. The PyeongCha

(ATTN: UPDATES with new info in paras 9, 11) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- The leader of the ruling Democratic Party weighed in Friday to dampen mounting opposition calls for South Korea's nuclear armament, warning it would only "do more harm than good."

(ATTN: UPDATES with more remarks, additional information from 3rd para) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- The temporary deployment of the U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is necessary to defend the country from North Korean provocations, and also to

(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed lower Friday as investors remained cautious amid still high running geopolitical tension, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benc

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SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- The temporary deployment of the U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is necessary to defend the country from North Korean provocations, and also to force the communist state to return to the dialogue table, a ranking of

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SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed lower Friday as investors remained cautious amid still high running geopolitical tension, analysts said. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price In

(ATTN: ADDS more details in last 3 paras) SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will explore all measures to prevent North Korea from perfecting a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the unification minister said Friday. Min