Washington rebuffed the request, the Yonhap news agency said.

韩国联合通讯社报道，华盛顿断然拒绝了这个要求。

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South Korea is seeing a spike in the price of pork belly, with 10000 won (RMB52) per kg, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.

据韩联社14日报道，韩国五花肉价格最近直线上升，每斤售价突破一万韩元(约52元人民币)。

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Professor Kwak Dae-kyung of Seoul's Dongguk University told the Yonhap news agency that the couple appeared to have lost track of reality.

首尔东国大学的郭达坤(Kwak Dae - kyung)教授告诉韩联社，这对夫妻似乎已经游离于现实生活之外了。

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On Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the North fired more short-range missiles off the same coast.

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The Yonhap news agency provided the same information, citing a Foreign Ministry official in Seoul.

NPR: Activists Criticize Reported NKorean Repatriation

The nine defectors made the journey in an engineless boat, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

CNN: South Korea won't return 9 defectors from the North

But both South Korea's Yonhap News Agency and China's People's Daily describe these defectors as lumberjacks.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: North Korea, evil as usual