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Yonhap News Summary

Yonhap News Summary



The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on
Friday.

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(LEAD) Wen says China will not defend anyone responsible for S. Korean ship sinking:
Cheong Wa Dae
SEOUL -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on
Friday that his government will not "patronize" anyone responsible for the
sinking of a South Korean warship in March, but added that China has not yet
concluded that North Korea was behind the tragedy, Lee's spokesman said.
In their two-hour talks here, Wen said China "opposes and censures any kind of
act destroying peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," according to Lee
Dong-kwan, senior secretary at the presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae.

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Russia to decide position on U.N. referral of N. Korea after own probe
SEOUL -- Russia will decide its position on South Korea's plan to refer North
Korea's sinking of one of its warships to the U.N. Security Council after
examining the outcome of an investigation into the incident, Moscow's top envoy
in Seoul said Friday.
In a public speech given at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul,
Ambassador Konstantin Vnukov said a team of Russian experts will visit South
Korea in the coming days to review investigation data on the sinking South Korean
naval ship Cheonan.

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(LEAD) S. Korea's military reviewing further measures against North
SEOUL -- South Korea is preparing to take additional measures against North Korea
as it sees the possibility of limited violence by the North amid escalating
tensions over Pyongyang's sinking of a Seoul warship, a senior military official
said Friday.
"Following the rhetoric of threats, we expect that North Korea could actually
carry out a military, non-military provocation," Major Gen. Ryu Je-seung, a
senior official at the South Korean defense ministry's policy and planning
division, told retired generals and admirals.

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(LEAD) Korean currency rises 2.44 pct to U.S. dollar
SEOUL -- The South Korean currency climbed 2.44 percent against the U.S. dollar
Friday as the euro's rebound and eased geopolitical risks helped revive investors'
appetite for risky assets, dealers said.
The local currency closed at 1,194.90 won to the greenback, up 29.10 won from
Thursday's close and the second straight session of gains. The Korean unit rose
to an intra-day high of 1,192 won to the dollar at one point in late trading.

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(LEAD) (News Focus) China's position at center of international attention over N.
Korea's ship sinking
SEOUL -- Whenever North Korea rattled the world with nuclear tests, missile
launches or other provocations, regional powers sought help in reining in the
prickly regime from the nation considered to have the most clout over Pyongyang:
China.
But convincing Beijing to get tough on North Korea has at times proven as
difficult as convincing Pyongyang to end its bad behavior, as seen in the North's
recent attack on a South Korean naval ship.

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(News Focus) N. Korea's exit strategy may be hidden in foe's words
SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- As pressure tightens on North Korea to come clean on its
attack on a South Korean warship, the exit strategy for Pyongyang's idolized
leader, Kim Jong-il, may be lying in the words of his foes -- or in the absence of
words directly placing blame on him.
Kim, who rules his impoverished state with menacing nuclear arms ambitions, has
disappeared from public eye since last week when Seoul condemned Pyongyang for
the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, citing the results of a multinational probe
accepted by much of the West.
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