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The newspaper, which often reflects Beijing's official policy line, also reported that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended Beijing's deployment of the oil rig, asserting during a phone conversation with his Indonesian counterpart Wednesday that the area where the rig is positioned is part of Chinese sovereign territory. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

U.S. turns attention back to Asia as Vietnam violently protests China’s oil rig move

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Samsung apologizes to sickened chip workers

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

Park Ji-sung, a former Manchester United regular and one of the stars of South Korea's run to the 2002 World Cup soccer semifinals, speaks during a press conference in Suwon, South Korea, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Park announced his retirement from top-flight football. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Soo-jin) KOREA OUT

Park Ji-sung announces retirement at age 33

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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

Golf Glance

By The Associated Press - 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

South Korea's national soccer team coach Hong Myung-bo, right, and other coaches pay silent tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol before announcement of the national team lineup for the upcoming Brazil World Cup at National Football Center in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Park, Ki included in South Korea’s World Cup squad

By JOHN DUERDEN - 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

Kim Jin-sun, head of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, right, speaks during a press conference as Gunilla Lindberg, chair of the IOC Evaluation Commission, listens in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, May 1, 2014. The IOC is convinced that preparations for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang are on track, in contrast with concerns over the chronic construction delays for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.(AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT

IOC says Pyeongchang is right on track for 2018

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Golf Glance

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A man watches a television news program reporting about North Korea's live-fire artillery drills at a Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills Tuesday near the countries' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean military officials said, in a possible indication of rising frustration in Pyongyang as it unsuccessfully pushes for outside aid. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea sends South Korea on alert with live-fire border drills

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives with Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, left, and Queen Haminah, right, followed by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, at the King's Palace or Istana Negara in, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 26, 2014. The last U.S. president to visit Malaysia was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trade, security on agenda for Obama in Malaysia

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

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

Kim Jong-un swarmed by female soldiers donning tears of joy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama attends a welcome ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Friday, April 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool)

Obama reassures allies: I can juggle many foreign crises

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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

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

A girl pays tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol during a temporary memorial at the auditorium of the Olympic Memorial Museum in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Angry relatives of some of the more than 130 people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol surrounded the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief Thursday, preventing them from leaving the area where families have been waiting for word of their loved ones for more than a week. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Families of ferry’s lost confront South Korean officials

By Gillian Wong and Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

This April 18, 2012 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Commercial satellite imagery shows increased activity at North Korea&#8217;s nuclear test site but not enough to indicate an underground atomic explosion is imminent, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday. North Korea last month threatened to conduct its fourth nuclear test and there&#8217;s been speculation it may do so as President Barack Obama travels to Asia this week. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

White House warily watching N. Korea nuke activity ahead of Obama tour of Asia

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times