BEIJING, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il was set to meet
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday for talks that sources say will likely

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Korean corporate bankruptcies
declined for the second straight month in February mainly because teetering

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks edged down 0.67 percent late
Thursday morning as institutional investors dumped blue-chip shares to take
profits, analysts said.

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korean belatedly approved the visit of South
Korean workers to a joint industrial complex on Thursday, allowing border

by Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea's fourth largest
refiner, said Thursday that it has signed a US$64 million deal with U.S. oil firm

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- Asiana Airlines, South Korea's second-largest air
carrier, said Thursday that it will sell bonds with warrants worth 100 billion

*** CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- The following is a chronological review of major developments
related to North Korea from March 12-18.

*** OPINION FROM EXPERTS

South Korea and U.S. Must Confront North Korea's Coercive Diplomacy

By Moon Soon-bo (Research Fellow, the Sejong Institute, Songnam, South Korea)

*** FOREIGN TIPS

Clinton Urges N.K. Not to Launch Missile, Proposes Missile Talks