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FILE - In this Thursday, June 27, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping’s first visit to the Korean Peninsula as China’s president is to Seoul, not Pyongyang, meaning that North Korea’s best friend has snubbed it for its most bitter rival. A flurry of recent rocket and missile tests, the latest on Wednesday, has made the North’s displeasure crystal clear. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool, File) **FILE**

Chinese leader’s Seoul visit snubs North Korea

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Seoul: North Korea fires 2 short-range projectiles

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

People watch a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 29, 2014. North Korea fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters Sunday, a South Korean official said, an apparent test fire that comes just days after the country tested what it called new precision-guided missiles. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea’s Kim guides rocket firing drills

By Jung-Yoon Choi - Associated Press

A spokesman for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Friday that the Hollywood comedy "The Interview," with Seth Rogen and James Franco that shows the autocrat's fake assassination, is indicative of American society's "desperation." (CTMG, Inc.)

North Korea says Seth Rogen movie ‘act of war,’ vows ‘merciless’ retaliation if released

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China has sought to cultivate warmer ties with South Korea by exploiting shared historical issues against Japan. With South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the helm in Seoul, that strategy seemed to be succeeding until the Chinese-Russian joint naval drill reignited bad feelings between the two. (Associated Press)

Inside China: How not to make friends China-style

By Miles Yu

Rescue workers treat victims of a major fire at a hospital in Jangseong, South Korea, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. South Korean officials said at least 20 patients and one nurse died in a fire at a hospital in the southwestern city of Jangseong. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung Min-woo) KOREA OUT

Fire kills 21 at South Korean hospital for elderly

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Police officers investigate in a burned out hospital in Jangseong, South Korea, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. A fire at the hospital annex housing elderly patients in the southwestern county of Jangseong killed 21 people early Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung Min-woo) KOREA OUT

Fire kills 21 at SKorean hospital for elderly

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

NKorea to participate in Asian Games in SKorea

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A high school student reads massages written on ribbons for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 15, 2014. Prosecutors indicted the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry and three crew members on homicide charges Thursday, alleging they were negligent and failed to protect more than 300 people missing or dead in the disaster. Less serious indictments were issued against the 11 other crew members responsible for navigating the vessel.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

15 crew indicted over South Korean ferry disaster

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers guard at a check point at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Cheorwon, South Korea, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. North Korea warned Tuesday that a South Korean official would pay the dear price for saying the North “must disappear soon” in an escalation of war of words between the rivals. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lim Byung-shik) KOREA OUT

North Korea threatens to attack South Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 25, 2014 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye listen to a reporter's question during a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said Monday, May 12, 2014, that North Korea isn't a real country and exists for the benefit of only one person, a reference to dictator Kim Jong Un. He says the North has no human rights or public freedoms. The comments followed a series of sexist and racist slurs by North Korea against the leaders of South Korea and the United States. Pyongyang's state media likened Park to an &quot;old prostitute&quot; and Obama to a &quot;monkey&quot; in recent dispatches. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)

South Korea says North Korea “must disappear soon”

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2008 file photo, Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee arrives for his trial at the Seoul Court House in Seoul, South Korea. Lee was hospitalized in stable condition at a Seoul hospital Sunday, May 11, 2014, after suffering a heart attack, the company said in a statement. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File)

Samsung chairman hospitalized after heart attack

By Jung-yoon Choi - Associated Press

South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Kim Min-seok speaks about the outcome of a government investigation into unmanned drones recently found near the inter-Korean border areas, during a news conference at the ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Seoul's Defense Ministry announced Thursday that a joint investigation by South Korea and the U.S. concluded three drones found in the South in March and April were flown by North Korea on military surveillance missions. A ministry statement called the drone flights a military provocation and said that South Korea will strongly react to it. North Korea has denied it sent such drones, accusing South Korea of plotting another fabrication that shows its confrontational stance on the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. Pool)

Seoul: North Korea preparing for 4th nuclear test

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 16, 2014 file photo, South Korean coast guard officers try to rescue passengers from the Sewol ferry as it sinks in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel. And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journey. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT

South Korea ferry was routinely overloaded

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

North Korea: New kind of nuke test still an option

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

NKorea denies drones were sent to South

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U.S. President Barack Obama addresses U.S. military personnel at Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Obama is wrapping up his two-day visit to South Korea and will continue to Malaysia and the Philippines on his four country Asia visit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama warns NKorea against nuclear threats

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, inspect an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Friday, April 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool)

Obama uses naturalization ceremony in South Korea to push immigration reform

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Seoul, Hiroshima advance in Asian Champions League

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