SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- A former entertainment industry heavyweight who
allegedly forced a popular actress to provide sexual favors to high-powered

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

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- The set of four short-range missiles North Korea
test-fired off its east coast earlier this week appear to be aimed at provoking

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has no plan yet to push for higher-level
meetings with North Korea despite little progress in on-and-off working-level

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will spend tens of billions of won to build
defenses by 2014 against the threat of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves

By Kim Soo-yeon
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 0.6 percent lower late
Friday morning as investor sentiment was hurt by worse-than-expected U.S. job

SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the
world's third-largest shipyard, said Friday that it has completed construction on

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- China appears to finally be moving after months of
international pressure on it to step up efforts to broker a breakthrough in

SEOUL, July 3 (Yonhap) -- A total of 855 people were prosecuted in Seoul on
drug-related charges during the first half of this year, up 7.3 percent from the