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  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
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    Kim adopts trappings of royalty as he presents ‘princess’ to North Korea

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  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
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    North Korea fires suspected ICBM into waters off Japan

    Launch of Pyongyang’s longest-range weapon seen as an angry response to moves by US and east Asian allies

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
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    Saudi Aramco leads Riyadh’s $30bn investment push into South Korea

    Deals announced by Saudi Arabia as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Seoul

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
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    How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cyber crime

    Cryptocurrency theft has become one of the regime’s main sources of revenue and underlines the lack of regulation of digital assets

  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
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    How a liquidity crunch in South Korea began at Legoland

    Policymakers struggle to contain defaults as rate rises put pressure on emerging markets

  • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
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    Asian battery makers jeopardise raw materials access by delaying deals

    South Korean groups holding back on direct investments in Australian producers in danger of ‘being left behind’

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
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    US to deploy more nuclear-capable warplanes around Korean peninsula

    Deterrence effort comes as North Korea steps up missile launches and readies for possible nuclear test

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
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    North Korea fires suspected ICBM in latest missile barrage

    Washington fears Pyongyang about to conduct first nuclear test since 2017

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
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    Crowd surge causes panic in narrow streets of nightlife district

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
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    Atelier Lerici is restoring craft traditions to the international stage

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
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    South Korea must remember the abuses Pyongyang would rather forget

    Seoul does not have any settled policy on future legal recourse for the victims of North Korea’s atrocities

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
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    Western turbine makers hope to capitalise on a technological advantage over competitors

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
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    South Korea launches military drills with the US as tensions mount

    Pyongyang has increased provocations while blaming fraught environment on Seoul and Washington

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
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    ‘North Korea has already won’: US urged to abandon denuclearisation ‘farce’

    Washington and its allies have failed to arrest the development of Kim’s arsenal, analysts warn

  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
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    North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan

    Projectile’s 4,600km flight potentially puts US territory of Guam within Pyongyang’s range

  • Monday, 3 October, 2022
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    City-state is struggling to balance credibility with innovation after the crash in digital assets

  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
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    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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    Biden’s renewables push to deliver big benefits to South Korea

    Furore over short-term impact on Hyundai electric vehicles misses the bigger picture

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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    Korean group plans to boost presence as it seeks to take on big US rivals building avatar-filled virtual worlds

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    ‘Sense of crisis’ has gripped South Korean chip industry, warns minister

    Lee Jong-ho says new legislation will boost competitiveness in supply chain and security

  • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
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    The writer and Conservative party candidate on her escape from the hermit kingdom, the case for Brexit — and building a new life in Bury

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    Seoul’s trade minister accuses Joe Biden of about-face on electric vehicle subsidies

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
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  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    South Korea issues arrest warrant for fallen ‘crypto king’ Do Kwon

    Terraform Labs co-founder under investigation since $40bn collapse of tokens

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