FILE PHOTO: Tesla EVs are parked in Hanam, South Korea, on July 6, 2020. REUTERS / Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said it is investigating possible security problems with vehicles manufactured by US automaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), which competes heavily with Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) in the South …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean women detained in prison camps suffered torture, rape and other forms of “multiple and serious” violence by security and police officials, a UN human rights report said Tuesday, citing accounts. of more than 100 women. The women, detained between 2009 and 2019 after not fleeing …
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South Korea has said a deserter who recently fled to the North does not appear to have contracted Covid-19, a day after Pyongyang imposed a lockdown near the border, alleging that the man was its first recorded case of the disease. North Korean state media reported Sunday that the 24-year-old …
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The United States Ambassador to South Korea has had a weight on his shoulders and upper lip for some time. Earlier this year, Harry Harris was accused of insulting his South Korean hosts by sporting a mustache that some say reminded them of the days of Japanese colonial rule. Harris …
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea / TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese government reacted angrily on Tuesday to a statue in South Korea that appears to represent Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, kneeling and bowing to a seated “woman of comfort”, a euphemism for women forced to work in Japan’s war brothels. Japan’s …
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