SKorea aborts rocket launch minutes before liftoff SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea on Wednesday aborted its first domestic launch of a rocket just minutes before scheduled liftoff because of a technical problem, delaying space ambitions that have threatened to anger rival North Korea. SKorea loses champion of peace: Kim Dae-jung SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea lost its most fervent champion of peace and democracy with the death of former President Kim Dae-jung, winner of the Nobel Prize for his efforts to foster reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. Freed journalists home in US after NKorea pardon BURBANK, Calif. - Two American journalists jubilantly reunited with family and friends early Wednesday upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton, whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests.
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