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Yoon arrives in Lithuania for NATO summit

By Lee Haye-ahVILNIUS, July 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in Lithuania on Monday for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit on a six-day trip that will later take him to Poland for an official visit.This will
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Seoul working to strengthen alliance with U.S.: ruling party leader

By Byun Duk-kunWASHINGTON, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The incumbent South Korean government is working to further enhance the country's bilateral relationship with the United States, the head of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) said Monday, arguing t
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(3rd LD) Opposition lawmakers urge Japan to drop Fukushima water release plan

(ATTN: RECASTS headline; UPDATES throughout; ADDS photo)SEOUL/TOKYO, July 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean opposition lawmakers held a protest rally in Tokyo on Monday, urging the Japanese government to withdraw its plan to release radioactive water from
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(3rd LD) N. Korea slams U.S. plan to send strategic nuclear submarine to Korean Peninsula

(ATTN: UPDATES with statement from N.K. leader's sister in paras 12-14; ADDS photo)By Chae Yun-hwanSEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea denounced on Monday a plan by the United States to send a strategic nuclear submarine to South Korea, warnin
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(URGENT) Kim Jong-un's sister claims U.S. reconnaissance aircraft intruded in N.K. airspace again early Monday

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Leader of disability rights protests referred to prosecution on illegal demonstration charges

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The leader of a disability rights advocacy group at the center of controversial rush-hour subway protests has been referred to prosecutors on charges of staging illegal demonstrations, law enforcement officials said Monday.
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Ex-veteran diplomat Chang Won-sam inaugurated as KOICA chief

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- Chang Won-sam, a former career diplomat, was inaugurated as the new head of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on Monday for a three-year term. Chang, a former secretary general of the Northeast Asian Histor
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(LEAD) (Yonhap Feature) N. Korean defectors say ordeal in China worsened due to COVID-19 pandemic

(ATTN: CHANGES photos) By Lee MinjiANSEONG, South Korea, July 10 (Yonhap) -- Three North Korean defectors who recently arrived in South Korea after living on the run in China said their ordeal significantly worsened due to strict restrictions during
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S. Korea sends additional military supplies bound for Ukraine

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has dispatched a military transport aircraft to send additional military supplies to Ukraine, a defense official here said Monday.The defense ministry made the decision to provide the supplies at Kyiv's requ
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(LEAD) N. Korea's food crisis is still grave despite imports from China: unification minister

(ATTN: CHANGES photo)ANSEONG, South Korea, July 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's food prices have stabilized to some degree, aided by grain imports from China, but the secretive regime still faces a serious food crisis, South Korea's unification
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Audit shows NEC employees go on overseas trips, golf outings with commissioners' allowances

By Kim Han-jooSEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The state audit agency said Monday it has uncovered irregularities involving the National Election Commission (NEC), where its employees utilized commissioners' allowances for other purposes, such as overs
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(2nd LD) Opposition lawmakers depart for Japan to protest Fukushima water release

(ATTN: CORRECTS lawmaker numbers in para 2; ADDS additional info in para 5)SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- Opposition lawmakers departed for Japan on Monday to protest Japan's plan to release radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
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National Assembly Secretariat searched for 2nd time in probe into DP's election bribery scandal

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors raided the National Assembly Secretariat on Monday as part of an investigation into a cash-for-votes scandal surrounding the main opposition Democratic Party's 2021 leadership election.Investigators from the
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(LEAD) U.S. general reaffirms 'upcoming' visit of nuclear ballistic missile submarine to S. Korea

(ATTN: ADDS former USFK commander's remarks in last 2 paras)SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. military official in Seoul on Monday reaffirmed Washington's commitment to enhancing the "regular visibility" of powerful militar
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Gov't denounces protests raising IAEA bribery suspicions as 'very inappropriate'

By Kim Han-jooSEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The government criticized weekend rallies where some protesters alleged that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) received bribes worth 1 million euros (US$1.1 million) from Japan, a senior official s
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U.S. general reaffirms 'upcoming' visit of nuclear ballistic missile submarine to S. Korea

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. military official in Seoul on Monday reaffirmed Washington's commitment to enhancing the "regular visibility" of powerful military assets in South Korea, pointing to the "upcoming visit&
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(Yonhap Feature) N. Korean defectors say ordeal in China worsened due to COVID-19 pandemic

By Lee MinjiANSEONG, South Korea, July 10 (Yonhap) -- Three North Korean defectors who recently arrived in South Korea after living on the run in China said their ordeal significantly worsened due to strict restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic,
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Ex-justice minister's son to relinquish degree over admission fraud allegations

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The son of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk has decided to relinquish his master's degree following years of controversy over admission irregularities, his lawyer said Monday. Cho Won, 26, was admitted to Yonsei Universi
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Yoon orders preemptive actions against heavy monsoon rains

SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday instructed his government to take "excessively preemptive" actions against possible damage from torrential downpours.Yoon made the instruction before departing for Lithuania ear
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PPP strikes back at DP over expressway project; DP talks about special counsel probe

By Kim Han-jooSEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- The ruling People Power Party (PPP) struck back at the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) on Monday over a now-scrapped expressway construction project by raising fresh allegations that a DP member would be