DPRK offers to S. Korea holding vice ministerial-level talks on Jan. 17

13:41, January 15, 2018

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  S. Korea offers working-level talks with DPRK on Winter Olympics on Jan. 15

  South Korea has offered to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) holding a working-level dialogue next week in the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss details on the DPRK's participation in the South Korea-hosted Winter Olympics, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday.A man watches a TV screen showing South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, shakes hands with the head

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  North Korea to join Olympics in South Korea as tensions ease

  ROK delegation (R) and DPRK delegation meet at the Peace House in the truce village of Panmunjon, January 9, 2017. (Photo: VCG)The rival Koreas took steps toward reducing their bitter animosity during rare talks Tuesday, as North Korea agreed to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea and reopen a military hotline.The meeting, the first of

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  S. Korea plans to ban cryptocurrency trading

  Photo: VCGThe South Korean government on Thursday said it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending Bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation's police and tax authorities raided local exchanges on alleged tax evasion.The clampdown in South Korea, a crucial source of global demand for cryptocurrency, came as policymakers around the world struggled to