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EDITORIAL from Joongang Daily on Oct. 13 : G-7 action, not talk
All eyes are on Washington D.C., where the International Monetary Fund, finance ministers and heads of central banks have been meeting to bring the current financial crisis under control.
EDITORIAL from the Korea Times on Oct. 13: Hope for real progress
The United States and North Korea have made a breakthrough in the communist country's stalled denuclearization process with Washington removing the North from its terrorism blacklist Saturday.
EDITORIAL from the Korea Herald on Oct. 13: Below expectations
The administration's finalized plan for privatization is simply disappointing. Of the 319 state-owned corporations that have been under review, only 38 will be put on the block.
Lee pledges job increases in his first radio address
By Yoo Cheong-mo
S. Korean lawmaker to become IPU executive member
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean lawmaker will become an executive
committee member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) as the fourth legislator
N. Korea says it will cooperate in nuke verification process
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SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Sunday that it will cooperate in the
Lee to promise job increases in his first radio address
By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak will deliver his first
U.S.-style radio address on Monday, vowing to focus his policy efforts on
Cheong Wa Dae seeks to resume dialogue with Pyongyang
By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- The office of President Lee Myung-bak said on Sunday
N. Korea hails U.S. removal of it from terror blacklist
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday welcomed a U.S. decision to take
it off a list of terror-sponsoring nations, saying Pyongyang will cooperate in
