By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Yonhap) -- The United States Friday urged North Korea to
release two American journalists detained for alleged illegal entry.

SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il hailed the country's
recent launch of what it calls a communications satellite as a "historic event"

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By Lee Chi-dong

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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has no intention to rejoin the six-way

SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has no intention to rejoin the six-way
talks on its nuclear program, but related nations need to try to persuade

DAEJEON, April 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading state-run laboratory said
Friday it signed a deal to set up an information technology (IT) research center
in Germany.

By Sam Kim
SEOUL/BUSAN/CHEONGJU, South Korea, April 24 (Yonhap) -- After the three-year
Korean War that ended in 1953 with a truce, South Korea was left with nearly

SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's detention of a South Korean citizen in
a joint park is a "fundamental" issue that has to do with the viability of doing

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SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- KT Corp., South Korea's largest fixed-line telephone

SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Friday invalidated currency option
contracts between four lenders and three small businesses, saying the banks