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FORMER KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM DAE-JUNG VISITS CAPITOL HILL IN WASHINGTON
Former President of the Republic of Korea Kim Dae-Jung makes his way to a lunch with Senators on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 19, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye put top priority on national security, saying North Korea's successful long-range rocket launch shows the "grave" situation between the two Koreas.
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South Korea's main opposition party is up in arms over a visit to the grave of a former president by the ruling Saenuri Party's new presidential candidate.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with the widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in Pyongyang, the Seoul government said.
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South Korean officials are cautiously considering a North Korean proposal that high-level talks and cross-border cooperation projects be resumed. They question the motives of their communist neighbor's abrupt switch from open hostility to conciliatory gestures.
There's been no summit proposal between South Korea and North Korea, the South Korean presidential office said Monday.
More than 20,000 people, including North Korea officials, attended Sunday's state funeral for ex-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in Seoul, officials said.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad