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...Seoul dispatched an official to Beijing to complain about China's "ongoing distortion of the history of Koguryo," including the removal of the kingdom's name from a Chinese Foreign Ministry Web page on Korea. And last week as many as 200 protesters in Seoul?some in period costumes?scuffled with police during demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy. "They think China is trying to eradicate the Korean identity," says Park Sang-seek, head of the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University north of Seoul...
...Distance in kilometers from Seoul to South Korea's new capital, Gongju, where the government will relocate...
...SEOUL Livingsa, located in the Hoehyeon Underground Mall in the financial district, is a mecca for vinyl hunters. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records that customers have to shuffle sideways around the store. The catalog is eclectic and includes Korean folk collections from the 1950s, live Nat King Cole recordings, Eddie Murphy stand-up albums as well as a jumble of jazz, classical...
...nuclear-armed sub might make Pyongyang even less willing to freeze its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang scoffed at a U.S. suggestion last month that it follow Libya's example by abandoning its nukes, calling the American offer a "sham." And the North has canceled high-level talks with Seoul, accusing it of kidnapping the 468 North Korean defectors who arrived in the South last week via Vietnam. Another round of multilateral talks on the North's nuclear program is due to start in September, but the chances of success seem slimmer than ever, says Nam Ju Hong, an expert...
...government scrambles to keep up with the swelling tide of defectors, it will have to reckon with the reaction of its neighbor to the North. Last week's arrivals were kept from the media and whisked off for debriefing by security officials, but not before Pyongyang accused Seoul of "premeditated kidnapping...