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(News Focus) Kim-Xi pledge to boost cooperation brings China's denuclearization goal into limbo

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Chinese President Xi Jinping's pledge to increase cooperation, including in the economy, could put Beijing's long-standing goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula in limbo, ex
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(2nd LD) Soldiers, fire trucks, Coast Guard ship deployed to supply water to drought-hit Gangneung

(ATTN: ADDS details throughout, photo; RECASTS lead; TRIMS)By Chae Yun-hwanSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Full-scale efforts have been launched to supply water to the eastern coastal city of Gangneung battling its worst-ever drought on record, with soldi
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Nat'l Assembly speaker urges China's vice premier to develop economic cooperation

By Yi Wonju SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik has held a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang and urged Beijing to develop economic cooperation with Seoul at a time of rapidly changing economic order, accord
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FTC chief nominee says immediate online platform regulation difficult amid U.S. tariff pressure

By Kim Han-jooSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) chief nominee said Friday it would be difficult to push ahead with regulations involving global online platforms, citing potential tariff-related backlash from the United States
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S. Korea, Australia agree to expand cooperation on supply chains

By Kim Han-jooSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Australia have agreed to significantly expand cooperation on supply chains for key strategic industries, Seoul's finance ministry said Friday.The agreement was reached during inaugural talk
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Lee to meet with ruling, opposition party leaders next week

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung will meet with leaders of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) next week, the presidential office said Friday. Lee is scheduled to have a luncheon meeting
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(LEAD) S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold trilateral Freedom Edge exercise this month

(ATTN: ADDS details in paras 6-7)By Lee MinjiSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their trilateral multi-domain Freedom Edge exercise this month, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday, in the
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Lee offers condolences to victims of deadly Lisbon funicular crash

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Friday extended condolences to the victims of a funicular railway crash in Lisbon that killed at least 16 people, including two South Koreans. Lee posted the message on Facebook after the foreign
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Lee calls for probe into unfair treatment of foreign workers

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Friday instructed the government to investigate cases of unfair treatment and wage arrears involving foreign workers and to prepare support measures.During a meeting with senior aides, Lee stresse
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Defense chiefs of S. Korea, Japan to meet in Seoul for 1st time in decade

By Lee MinjiSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan will hold talks in Seoul next week, the South's defense ministry said, marking what would be the first official visit to South Korea by a Japanese defense minister
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U.S. authorities detain some 450 individuals from Hyundai Motor plant in Georgia in immigration raid: reports

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- U.S. immigration authorities have detained as many as 450 employees at a manufacturing site in Georgia run by South Korean auto company Hyundai Motor Group, as part of a raid for an investigation into undocumented individua
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(LEAD) Soldiers, fire trucks, Coast Guard ship deployed to supply water to drought-hit Gangneung

(ATTN: ADDS details in paras 5-7, photo)By Chae Yun-hwanSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Full-scale efforts have been launched to supply water to the drought-hit city of Gangneung, deploying hundreds of soldiers, dozens of fire trucks and a Coast Guard pat
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PM says infrastructure for APEC summit likely to be completed by end-month

By Lee Haye-ahSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Friday that infrastructure for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju will likely be completed by the end of this month.Kim made the remark wh
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Seoul stocks down late Fri. morning ahead of US employment data

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded lower late Friday morning, as investors took a cautious stance ahead of the key U.S. employment data release.The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) inched down 0.36 point, or 0.01
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Lee's approval rating inches up for 2 straight weeks: poll

By Yi WonjuSEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating reached 63 percent ahead of his 100th day in office, a poll showed Friday, driven by positive feedback of his recent summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japa
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Minor Rebuilding Korea Party embroiled in sexual misconduct scandal

By Yi Wonju SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- The minor Rebuilding Korea Party has been embroiled in an intensifying sexual misconduct scandal, prompting an apology by the party's acting leader a day after its spokesperson quit in protest of the leaders
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Defense chief urges tightened discipline after military accidents

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back on Friday urged the military to tighten discipline in a meeting with key commanders, following a string of accidents at the military, including the recent death of an officer involving firearms
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Arms agency chief, Saudi officials discuss defense cooperation

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- The head of South Korea's arms procurement agency met with government officials in Saudi Arabia earlier this week to discuss bilateral cooperation in the defense sector, officials said Friday.Defense Acquisition Program
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(LEAD) Special counsel raids Nat'l Education Commission over alleged bribery of ex-first lady

(ATTN: UPDATES with raid on Presidential Security Service)SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- A special counsel team said Friday it raided the presidential National Educational Commission (NEC) over bribery allegations involving its incumbent chief and former
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Hanwha Aerospace partners with Polish defense institute for ammunition certification

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Aerospace Co. said Friday it has partnered with Poland's Military Institute of Armament Technology for quality certification of key components of the company's 155-millimeter ammunition produced in the Easter