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Proof: 'China has never asked Seoul to choose a side between Beijing, Washington,' envoy says

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f4c2044e0e0d09dd5d581e5cf90af403f280f86c594b87547328ad5e0f2aaf89

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970131, mined 2026-10-06 04:14 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 04:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 04:22 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f4c2044e0e0d.json prints f4c2044e0e0d09dd5d581e5cf90af403f280f86c594b87547328ad5e0f2aaf89. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f4c2044e0e0d.json and headline-f4c2044e0e0d.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-f4c2044e0e0d.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 min after it was first seen.