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(Yonhap) -- South Korea faced a nerve-wracking several months in 1977 after the administration of then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter held up arms sales to foreign countries worth about US$6 billion, Se...
Updated : 2013.03.31 21:22
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Australian Ambassador to Korea Sam Gerovich returned to Canberra at the end of last week, completing a four-year posting here which started on March 24, 2009. Gerovich will be replaced by Bill Pater...
Updated : 2013.03.31 20:22
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Special Representative for Climate Change Neil Morisetti gestures during a speech at a reception on March 20 for participants of the two-day Climate Security Conference held on March 21 and 22 in Seo...
Updated : 2013.03.31 20:22
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Tunisia celebrated its 57th year of independence from colonial rule Tuesday, as well as the second anniversary of popular demonstrations that swept the North African nation and toppled the 34-year-lo...
Updated : 2013.03.31 20:20
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A panel of foreign envoys, government officials and experts on development issues will discuss the recent findings of a United Nations report on human development at Korea University on April 4. Ban...
Updated : 2013.03.31 20:19
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With Korea as a strategic partner, Ecuador is poised to embark on its most ambitious infrastructure project ever, a so-called “city of knowledge” on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest. Yachay, whic...
Updated : 2013.03.31 20:19
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President Park Geun-hye tapped former first Vice Foreign Minister Ahn Ho-young as South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. and former three-term Saenuri Party lawmaker Kwon Young-se as ambassador to Chin...
Updated : 2013.03.31 16:05
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President Park Geun-hye asked Friday for U.S. congressional support for South Korea to expand its “peaceful use” of atomic energy, her spokeswoman said, as the two nations are in talks over Seoul’s d...
Updated : 2013.03.29 20:33
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Korea has been credited with establishing “green growth” as an international goal. Former President Lee Myung-bak touted it as the next big thing, harmonizing environmental protection and economic...
Updated : 2013.03.28 20:34
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An upcoming forum will address one of the most contentious issue between South Korea and the United States -- whether Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons. The North Korean nuclear crisis wi...
Updated : 2013.03.28 09:21
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ULSAN ― North Korea’s weapons program is not the only nuclear headache for South Korea. The country’s radioactive waste storage is filling up as its nuclear power industry burgeons, but what South K...
Updated : 2013.03.27 20:36
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Haruki Wada, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University, said in his new book that Japan should immediately renounce its claims of sovereignty over Dokdo. In his recently published book titled “How t...
Updated : 2013.03.26 20:29
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Seoul on Tuesday protested Japan’s approval of newly updated schoolbooks that carry its claim to the Korean islets of Dokdo and distort its wartime atrocities. The Foreign Ministry called in Takash...
Updated : 2013.03.26 20:26
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The developing world’s drive to stamp out poverty should be integrated with environmental efforts to minimize its vulnerability to climate change and achieve sustainable growth, the new chair of the...
Updated : 2013.03.26 20:26
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Chinese President Xi Jinping recently sent a personal letter to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, expressing hope that the two nations will further strengthen their ties, the South Korean preside...
Updated : 2013.03.26 20:22
