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Why Mothers Travel Abroad to Have Their Babies

NBA star Yao Ming was nicknamed "The Great Wall of Yao" for his towering height at 229 cm. He married Ye Li, a member of the Chinese national basketball team, in 2007, but the two had to live apart due to Yao's U.S. basketball career, the Chosun Ilbo reported. When he took his pregnant wife to the U.S. in 2010, Chinese media accused him of having a so-called "anchor baby" who automatically gets U.S. citizenship by being born there. Ye gave birth to a baby girl in the U.S. two months later, and millions of Yao's fans were incensed. China's Shenzhen region has a thriving business helping expecting mothers travel to Hong Kong to have their baby there. It costs 100,000 yuan. Out of 95,000 babies who were born in Hong Kong in 2011, 44,000 were apparently anchor babies from mothers in China, most of them from wealthy and powerful families. By having a baby in Hong Kong, Chinese women can avoid punitive measures against having more than one child and the baby gets a coveted Hong Kong passport, allowing him or her to travel to some 120 countries without a visa. In the 19th century, the

Jun 4, 2013

N. Korea set to restart Yongbyon reactor

North Korea looks ready to resume the production of weapons-grade plutonium at its main nuclear site in Yongbyon, a move expected to make efforts to revive the six-way denuclearization talks more difficult, according to a U.S. institute.New commercial satellite imagery shows North Korea is making "important progress" in activating the 5-megawatt gas-graphite reactor mothballed since 2007 under a deal with South Korea, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan, the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said Monday."Pyongyang is nearing completion of work necessary to restart the 5 MWe reactor used to produce North Korea's supply of weapons-grade plutonium," it said in a report carried on the website 38 North. "The 5-MWe reactor may be 1-2 months from start-up. But the availability of fresh fuel rods to power the reactor remains uncertain."North Korea seems to have essentially finished repairing the cooling system needed to restart and operate the Soviet-era reactor, it added.The communist nation destroyed the cooling tower in 2007 in a nascent step

Jun 4, 2013

2 high school girls found dead in garden in Daegu

Two high school girls have been found dead in a garden in front of an apartment in Gwangju.According to the local police, the bodies of Kim, 16, and Choi, 16, were found in the garden by their friends at 11:45 a.m. on June 3.Kim was not a resident of the apartment and was reportedly partying with her friends on the previous night.The police believe that the two girls jumped off from the top of the apartment in an apparent suicide. Investigations are underway.

Jun 4, 2013
2 high school girls found dead in garden in Daegu

Nine N. Korean defectors originally headed for US, not S. Korea

The United States was the original destination for nine North Korean defectors who were eventually sent back to their communist homeland, a human rights activist here said Monday, refuting a claim that they hoped to seek asylum in South Korea.Controversy persists over who is responsible for the forced repatriation of the nine North Koreans, mostly in their teens, last week. After crossing the border to China in 2011, they moved to Laos, a usual stop for North Korean defectors hoping to resettle in the U.S. or South Korea. But they were caught by the Lao authorities in May and deported to China, which regards North Korean defectors as economic migrants, not asylum seekers.In Seoul, Korean activist Kim Hee-tae claimed that the nine defectors initially planned to seek asylum in the U.S. but the destination was changed to South Korea after they were arrested in Laos.Kim said Suzanne Scholte, the head of the Defense Forum Foundation and the North Korea Freedom Coalition in Washington, is partly to blame for the failed attempt to help the defectors, as she advised them to try to enter the

Jun 4, 2013

Italian National Day

 Sergio Mercuri, right, Italian Ambassador to Korea, and Mo Chul-min, senior secretary to the president for education and culture, pose during an Italian National Day event at the Italian Embassy in Seoul, Monday./ Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Jun 3, 2013

Wanted

A policeman hands out flyers bearing fugitive Lee Dae-woo’s photo and personal information at Seoul Station, Monday. Lee escaped from a prosecution office in Jeonju, South Jeolla Province, May 20, while being questioned on suspicion of larceny. Police suspect Lee is hiding in the metropolitan Seoul area, and a 10 million won reward is being offered for information leading to his capture./ Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Jun 3, 2013

12 Army officers face punishment for sexual assault involving cadets

The head of South Korea's elite Army academy will be discharged from his service and 11 other Army officers will face disciplinary action in connection with a sexual assault case involving cadets, the Army said Monday.Lt. Gen. Park Nam-su, the head of the Korea Military Academy, had offered to retire shortly after a female cadet was sexually assaulted by a senior cadet after drinking with professors and colleagues during a campus festival last Wednesday.After the female sophomore had vomited due to consuming a lot of alcohol, a senior cadet brought her to his room and assaulted her. The male cadet is now under investigation by state prosecutors, Army officials said. Two one-star generals and nine lower-level officers, who drank with the victim, will be sent to a disciplinary committee over the incident. During the festival, 38 professors and students drank after a sporting event, which violates the academy's code of conduct, the Army said."The academy chief will be discharged from his service and the disciplinary committee will investigate the other officers who drank toget

Jun 3, 2013
12 Army officers face punishment for sexual assault involving cadets

Korean sex slaves to have their story documented in English

By Lee Kyung-minKorean sex slaves in WWII will have records of their own in English.Professional translators and native English-speaking copy editors ㅡ four of them ㅡ formed a group dedicated to this work, and have been working since last December.This move comes after decades-long, a series of justifications by Japanese ultra-right public figures’ mind-boggling comments ㅡ and the controversy and condemnation that entails.Comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto such as “sex slaves were war time necessities” would be the most recent one.To counter them point by point, Korea, with women who actually were sex slaves, should have the first-hand account written unadulterated by outside interests, the group said.Out of 234 registered victims, they have translated the full-text testimony of six women, and summarized the biography of 30 women and what they had to go through.The tone and the emotion of the victims as they recollect will be the primary concern for the work, they said.Another concern is that they come up with a professional, neutral set of documentation of hist

Jun 3, 2013By Lee Kyung-min
Korean sex slaves to have their story documented in English

Park names long-time aide Lee Jung-hyun senior press secretary

President Park Geun-hye has named long-time aide Lee Jung-hyun new senior press secretary following the dismissal of former journalist Yoon Chang-joon, Cheong Wa Dae sad Monday.Yoon was fired after his alleged sexual encounter with an aide of the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. during Park visit there last month.Lee has long served as Park’s mouthpiece even when the President was silent in the political circle and is regarded as one of her closest aides.Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Kim Haeng said Park had been looking for someone who can best reflect her political principals following the disgraced exit of her first press secretary.

Jun 3, 2013

S. Korea renews 'firm commitment' to enriching uranium in talks with U.S.

South Korea's chief negotiator renewed his "firm commitment" on Monday to enriching uranium and reprocessing nuclear fuel for the nation's civil nuclear energy program as Seoul resumed formal negotiations with Washington aimed at revising a bilateral nuclear accord. After more than two years of negotiations, South Korea failed to win U.S. permission to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel in the negotiations. Instead, the allies agreed in late April to extend the current agreement by two more years until March 2016. Ambassador Park Ro-byug, Seoul's chief negotiator to the talks, and Thomas Countryman, U.S. assistant secretary for international security and non-proliferation, launched two days of negotiations in Seoul earlier in the day. "We have a firm commitment to making progress in revising our agreement," Park told Countryman during his opening remarks. "I think we have a good common ground for making progress," Park said, adding South Korea is "very much interested in our talks because this agreement is a common goal of our partnership as well as our future prosp

Jun 3, 2013
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