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S Korea police stations raided in probe of Halloween crush deaths

Police had received 11 reports of dangerous crowding in Itaewon up to four hours before the tragedy unfolded.

Al Jazeera

S.Korea's nuclear regulator keen to share knowledge along with plant exports

South Korea's top nuclear regulator sees an important role in sharing their safety knowledge along with the plants it is exporting as Europe and Asia revisit nuclear power to meet carbon emissions goals and ensure energy security.

Reuters

South Korea fires air-to-ground missiles in response to North Korea launches

South Korea's military said it fired three air-to-ground missiles towards north of its maritime border with North Korea on Wednesday in response to the North's firing of at least 10 missiles earlier in the day, including one which landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast.

Reuters

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S. Korea conducts missile tests in response to N. Korean launches

South Korea says it has conducted air-to-surface missile tests in response to North Korean missile launches.

France 24

North Korea missile crosses maritime border with South for first time

One missile landed close to South Korean territorial waters, south of the Northern Limit Line, military chiefs in Seoul say

The Guardian - AU

North Korea sends missile across border in biggest daily barrage

North Korea fired at least 10 ballistic missiles Wednesday including one that was the first to fly over a nautical border with South Korea, in its biggest daily barrage under leader Kim Jong Un.

Tribune News Service

Air raid warning on S.Korean island as N.Korea fires 10 missiles

SEOUL: North Korea fired at least 10 missiles of various types on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, shortly after it confirmed that a ballistic missile had landed close to South Korean waters for the first time.

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N Korean missile lands off S Korea coast, Seoul launches response

Launches follow Pyongyang warning over ongoing military exercises between South Korea and the United States.

Al Jazeera

North Korea fires 23 missiles, one landing off South Korean coast for first time

North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, which South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "territorial encroachment" and Washington denounced as "reckless".

Reuters

South Korea PM urges police to explain response to Halloween crush emergency calls

South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said on Wednesday police must explain how they responded after receiving multiple emergency calls in the hours before a Halloween party crush killed more than 150 people in Seoul.

Reuters

South Korea: N. Korea fires missile toward sea after threat

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff say North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward sea Wednesday, but gave no further details like how far it flew

The Independent UK

North Korea Threatens to Use Nuke over S. Korea-US Drills

North Korea issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the US and South Korea to "pay the most horrible price in history," an escalation of its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale military drills between its rivals. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high…

Asharq Al-Awsat

North Korea threatens to use nuke over S. Korea-US drills

North Korea has issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history

The Independent UK

South Korean police received first emergency call hours before deadly Seoul Halloween crush

‘I barely managed to leave but there are too many people, looks like you should come and control,’ one caller told police

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The Guardian - UK

Hunt review – Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae directs 80s-set stunt-filled spy flick

Lee Jung-jae’s directorial debut, set in 1980s South Korea, is busy to the point of exhaustion and ends up chasing its own tail

Tribune News Service

South Korea acknowledges crowd control as factor in fatal crush

Top South Korean officials said a lack of proper crowd management was likely a factor behind a deadly surge of people that left at least 156 dead, with police faulted for not doing enough to heed warnings that masses were growing to dangerous levels.

Reuters

Emergency calls reveal growing desperation before South Korea Halloween crush

Transcripts of the 11 emergency calls made in the hours and minutes before a Halloween party crush killed more than 150 people in Seoul reveal the growing fear of revellers and how they had urged the police to intervene.

Axios

South Korean officials apologize for Halloween crowd surge

"The action of the police was insufficient," National police chief Yoon Hee Keun said Tuesday.

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The Guardian - UK

Ocado shares soar as it signs deal with South Korean retailer

Online grocer to build robotic warehouses for Lotte Shopping in boost after slowing sales

Newslaundry

Daily Dose Ep 1188: SC to hear PIL on Morbi bridge collapse, South Korea police on stampede

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, New Delhi, Rajasthan, and South Korea.

Radio France Internationale

Police admit mistakes over South Korean Halloween crowd tragedy

South Korea's police chief has admitted that officers received multiple reports of danger but failed to react "sufficiently" ahead of the deadly crowd movement which cost 156 people their lives at a Halloween event in the capital, Seoul.

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Korea Vows Tough Action, Moving to Quell Anger Over Halloween Crush

South Korea moved to calm public outrage on Tuesday over a Halloween party crush that killed more than 150 people, most of them young, promising a speedy and intensive inquiry and calling for tough new safety measures to prevent similar disasters. The death toll from the crush at a crowded…

Reuters

Japan LDP No.2 Aso to fly to South Korea to meet President Yoon -Sankei

Former Japanese premier Taro Aso, now vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will travel to South Korea on Wednesday for a potential meeting with President Yoon Suk-yeol, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

South Korean police admit Halloween crush response ‘inadequate’

Police had received multiple reports warning of possible accidents on the night of the disaster

The Independent UK

After tragic crush, lost shoes await owners at Seoul gym

Days after more than 150 Halloween revelers were killed in South Korea’s deadliest crowd surge, hundreds of abandoned shoes remained laid out in rows in a badminton court in the capital Seoul

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