By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged North Korea
Tuesday to halt its provocative military threats and to work with his country,

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SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul hospital on Tuesday removed life-support for a

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Japan's second-highest defense official met with his
South Korean counterpart Tuesday and exchanged views on North Korea's nuclear and

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details in para 2, speaker's reaction in last 2 paras; RESTRUCTURES throughout)

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- An international boxing governing body will send a
team to South Korea next month to investigate allegations that South Korean

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Three relatives of Hwang Jang-yop, a former North
Korean Workers' Party secretary who defected to South Korea over a decade ago,

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Russia have agreed to launch a
fast-track patent review process in November to speed up the process of securing

By Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean health authorities confirmed four more
cases of Influenza A Tuesday, raising the number of infections in the country to

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- A ruling party lawmaker lost his National Assembly
seat Tuesday after the Supreme Court convicted his brother and an accountant of

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- The country's rival parties were put on a collision
course Tuesday after the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) ignored the