(EDITORIAL from JoongAng Daily on Dec. 11)
At a luncheon yesterday with President Lee Myung-bak, the country's elders - including former statesmen and leading public figures - repeatedly emphasized "national unity."
Cooperative reform: It's rrgent to cut corrupt ties to better serve farmers
The nation's corruption-ridden farm cooperative should no longer delay its reforms to improve its transparency and accountability.
Chinese foreign minister to meet nuclear envoys By Lee Chi-dong
BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi plans to meet top nuclear envoys from North Korea and its five dialogue partners at 10 a.m.
Deadlocked nuclear talks likely to end without deal
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Envoys from the U.S.
Deadlocked nuclear talks likely to end without deal
BEIJING, Dec.
Deadlocked nuclear talks may end without deal
By Lee Chi-dong
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Negotiators failed Wednesday to narrow differences
on how to inspect North Korea's atomic arms program, as Pyongyang's envoy
Samsung, Hyundai not to 'artificially' lay off workers: officials
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's two largest conglomerates said Wednesday
they will not engage in artificial restructuring efforts, despite the slowdown in
Nuclear talks in stalemate, Hill says
By Lee Chi-dong
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- The six-way talks on the North Korean nuclear
program remain deadlocked, and it is not clear whether the envoys will continue
China undecided on whether to continue talks
By Lee Chi-dong
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- Negotiators ended their Wednesday session of six-way
talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, but host China has yet to inform the
S. Korea's biz investment expected to contract in 2009: poll
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's business investment is expected to
contract in 2009 from this year as the global slump compels entrepreneurs to be
