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This April 2007 photo, shows Associated Press Seoul news editor Foster Klug in Washington. The Associated Press has named Klug as its chief of bureau for South Korea. The appointment was announced Monday, April 21, 2014, by Ted Anthony, the Asia-Pacific news director based in Bangkok, to whom Klug will report. (AP Photo)

AP names Klug to top SKorea editorial position

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Visitors reading messages wishing safe return of missing passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol are silhouetted on the side of a tent at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from the South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Cries of anguish as South Korea ferry toll tops 100

By Gillian Wong and 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. It is a decision that has maritime experts stumped and is at odds with standard procedure: Why were the passengers of the doomed South Korean ferry told to stay in their rooms rather than climb on deck? Evacuations can be chaotic and dangerous, and an important principle in maritime circles is that even a damaged ship may be the best lifeboat. But car ferries like the Sewol, which left some 300 people missing or dead when it sank Wednesday, are different. They are particularly susceptible to rapid capsizing which makes it critically important that the crew quickly evacuate passengers when there is trouble. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT

Delay in ferry evacuation puzzles maritime experts

By YOUKYUNG LEE and JUSTIN PRITCHARD - Associated Press

Korean Air A380 hits 2 light poles at LA airport

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

In this image taken from video released by News Y via Yonhap, passengers from a ferry sinking off South Korea's southern coast, are rescued by a South Korean Coast Guard helicopter in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Nearly 300 people were still missing Wednesday several hours after the ferry carrying 477, most of them high school students, sank in cold waters off South Korea's southern coast. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT

South Korea says 293 missing in ferry disaster

By Hyung-jin Kim and Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo provided on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by the South Korea Defense Ministry, an unmanned drone which was found last week in Paju, a South Korean city near the land border with North Korea. South Korean experts say two small drones believed to have been flown across the border by the North amid rising military tensions were crude and decidedly low-tech - with cameras available on the Internet for hundreds of dollars - but underscore a potential new threat that must be taken seriously. (AP Photo/South Korea Defense Ministry, File)

Suspected NKorean drones crude, reflect new threat

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Mourners leave messages Wednesday for the family of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon at Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center near Seoul. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Rev. Moon lauded for efforts to reunify Koreas

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times