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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 file photo, Cho Hyun-ah, who was head of cabin service at Korean Air and the oldest child of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, speaks to the media upon her arrival for questioning at the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board office of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Seoul, South Korea. Nut rage imploded the career of the Korean Air Lines executive and embarrassed her family and country. Now South Korean retailers are experiencing the unexpected upside: a boom in sales of macadamias. The flavorful macadamia nut was unfamiliar to many South Koreans until Cho ordered a flight attendant off a Dec. 5 flight from New York City after she was served them in a bag, instead of on a plate. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Sales of macadamias soar in Korea after nut rage

By Youkwung Lee - Associated Press

A secret North Korean document obtained by Western intelligence states the late dictator Kim Jong-Il conceived and directed a program to kidnap foreigners and bring them back to his communist country to force them to become spies against their home countries, The Washington Times has learned. (Associated Press/Korea News Service)

Kim Jong-il of North Korea ordered foreign kidnappings to create spies: secret document

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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North Korea blasts Christmas tree near border as ‘despicable psychological warfare’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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

KANG: Legitimacy and justice on the Korean peninsula

By Grace Kang

Lee Joon-seok, the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol, second from right, arrives at Gwangju District Court in Gwangju, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Park Chul-hong) ** FILE **

South Korean ferry captain gets 36 years in prison

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

A mother, center, of a victim, identified as Private First Class Yoon, cries after the trial at an outside of military court in Yongin, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. South Korea's Defense Ministry says a military court has sentenced six soldiers to up to 45 years in prison for bullying and beating a subordinate who died. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Ryu Soo-hyun) KOREA OUT

South Korea soldiers convicted in hazing death

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

United begins direct flights from Seoul to Guam

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Lee Joon-seok, the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol, second from right, arrives at Gwangju District Court in Gwangju, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Park Chul-hong) ** FILE **

South Korea seeks death penalty for ferry captain

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Rescue workers stand around a collapsed ventilation grate at an outdoor theater in Seongnam, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Fourteen people were feared dead Friday after the ventilation grate collapsed during a concert by popular girls’ band 4Minute, officials said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Young-geun)

15 feared dead in accident at South Korean concert

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

North Korea Human Rights Violations Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

KO: Ending North Korea’s human rights violations

By Ko Young-hwan

This undated file photo provided on July 14, 2010, by the U.S. Defense Dept. shows Pfc. Philip W. Ackley's Korean War dog tag. The tag, which was found in North Korea's Unsan battlefield area where Ackley is believed to have been lost, was handed over to the U.S. by North Korean at the Panmunjom truce village in January, 2010. North Korea said Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, that the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War were being neglected and "carried away en masse," in an apparent effort to pressure Washington to resume recovery efforts that could also lead to much-needed money for the impoverished country. (AP Photo/U.S. Defense Dept., File)

North Korea: Remains of U.S. soldiers being moved

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

Koreas trade fire as South Korea tries to fly balloon messages across the border

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had surgery on his foot, leading many to believe it led to his disappearance from public view. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

U.S. intel: Kim Jong-un still in charge in North Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean Navy destroyer Munmu the Great (DDH-976) in 2006. (image: U.S. Navy)

North Korea, South Korea warships trade warning shots at sea border

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Kim Yang Gon, left, North Korea’s ruling Workers Party secretary, talks with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae during the closing ceremony for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Hwang, North Korea's presumptive No. 2, and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals' highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in pursuing better ties after months of animosity. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Bae Jae-man) KOREA OUT

2 Koreas meet for highest level talks in 5 years

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

Despite the Obama administration's lacking a clear strategy for North Korea, Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon hopes the U.S. can steer Pyongyang to openness. (Keith Lane/Special to the Washington Times)

Obama, U.S. too passive on North Korea nuclear weapons: Seoul mayor

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, an employee of Daegyo, the dog meat restaurant, shows a dog meat before serve to customers at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. Daegyo, the famous dog meat restaurant she opened in a Seoul alley in 1981, will serve its last bowl of boshintang, or dog stew, on Friday, a reflection of the challenges facing a trade that is neither legal nor explicitly banned under South Korean laws governing livestock and food processing. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A flavor out of favor: Dog meat fades in S. Korea

By Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

South Korea's Hae Chan Choi, left, celebrates with catcher Sang Hoon Han, center, and Shane Jaemin Kim (17) after getting the final out of a 8-4 win in the Little League World Series championship baseball game against Chicago in South Williamsport, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Chicago falls to South Korea in Little League World Series title game

By Rusty Miller - Associated Press