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By Evan Ramstad SEOUL -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's decision not to split the national government by moving a portion from Seoul to a new city in the middle of the country is facing a backlash from lawmakers in both liberal and conservative... Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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South Korean president Lee Myung-bak said Friday that he is ready to meet with his DPRK counterpart Kim Jong-il "anytime and anywhere" to resolve the nuclear issue. Full Article at People's Daily Online
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The North Korean media have returned to abusive language in talking about South Korea after a brief interim that saw unusually polite terminology. Full Article at Rantburg
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I think this is it for a while, in three extensive sub-parts! Background here.1) Today the Columbia Journalism Review published part 2 of its interview with Howard French; first part was here and was discussed here. Full Article at The Atlantic
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COLE: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak commenting on the fine autumn weather while marking the start of a program he says will rehabilitate the four major rivers of his country. Full Article at Radio Australia
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[O]ut of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt. After zero long years of study. Full Article at Stop The ACLU
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Source: CNN Obama said Monday that the U.S. needs to restore the nation's leadership in educating children in math and science to meet future challenges, and he announced a new Educate to Innovate Campaign. Full Article at Democratic Underground
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By Jon Herskovitz and Christine Kim SEOUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea launched an ambitious and costly project this week to overhaul its four major rivers in a way the government says will be a model for green growth but conservationists say will... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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South Korea, the final leg of US President Obamas Asian trip, was no more successful that his other stops. In Japan, Singapore and China, Obama failed to secure any significant economic concessions and came under fire for growing US protectionism. Full Article at Global Research
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After taking his message as the ’first Pacific president’ through four countries in eight days, US President Barack Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to US troops... Full Article at Trinidad and Tobago Express
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On the last leg of a long Asian trip in which O was essentially bottled up, the shot, in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do -themed photo-op, offers up the Prez as a powerful action figure as he re-injects himself back into the homeland's... Full Article at BAGnewsNotes
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, right, shake hands following their joint press conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Full Article at Jack & Jill Politics
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SEOUL, South Korea — Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties against Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear... Full Article at NorthJersey.com
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South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Friday the government will not renegotiate with the United states on the free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries. Full Article at People's Daily Online
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South Korean officials have dampened speculation that the country is willing to re-negotiate a free trade agreement with the US. Full Article at BBC News
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South Korea plans to ease domestic investment rules and foreign entry procedures by 2020 in a bid to vitalize tourism, the nation's culture minister said Friday. Full Article at People's Daily Online
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The ambitious accord, signed more than two years ago, has languished in political limbo as U.S. officials say it does not adequately address a wide gap in auto trade between the two countries that favors South Korea. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
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President Lee Myung-bak and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama in a meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on Thursday agreed to try and ratify an epically delayed bilateral free trade agreement next year. Full Article at Rantburg
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US President Barack Obama said he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved towards nuclear disarmament. Full Article at Rantburg
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SEOUL -- U.S. President Barack Obama said he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved towards nuclear disarmament. Full Article at China Post
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Global warming is a crisis, while at the same time an opportunity that can create a gigantic market
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The long-term idea is that Seoul will ultimately drift more towards Beijing's orbit, although less so under President Lee Myung-bak.
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South Korea-Vietnam relations have seen remarkable improvements since the countries established diplomatic ties in 1992
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After taking his message as the ‘first Pacific president’ through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North Korea
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Korea and Japan have had difficulty in improving relations due to the past
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Certainly under Lee Myung-bak and Obama we are returning to normalcy.
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The two leaders agreed on (the need for) a fundamental, comprehensive solution to North Korea (the DPRK)'s nuclear program and promised to closely cooperate to completely resolve the problem
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North Korea should immediately abandon its nuclear weapons program. The Lee Myung-bak government should also overhaul its North Korea policy and resume fertilizer and rice assistance, as his liberal predecessors did ... Rice shipment to the North is particularly needed to cope with falling rice prices a...
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Now is a good time for North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, and there will be good results if we can offer a proposal for a one-step solution of the nuclear issue and conditions for such a deal
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It has been confirmed that since inauguration of President Lee Myung-bak, the freedom of press in South Korea has greatly declined
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Premier Wen said North Korea was willing to have talks with South Korea. I welcome this
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We've suddenly reached a charm phase with North Korea with Kim Jong-il inviting President Lee Myung-bak from the Republic of Korea to visit Pyongyang.
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We agreed on the need for a fundamental and comprehensive solution to North Korea's nuclear issues, not to repeat the negotiation tactics of the past. For this purpose, we agreed to work closely with other partners at the six-way talks over the package deal.
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It's true that we need a dialogue with North Korea
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In order for us to really accurately assess North Korea's true intent, that is the reason I proposed a grand bargain, whereby we will really have to deal with this in a one-shot deal and to try to bring about a fundamental resolution
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It is unthinkable for us to just grant a de facto nuclear status to North Korea
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The ultimate objective is to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program
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In the past, from experience, we know that negotiating with North Korea has always been a process whereby we make one step forward and we take two steps back, and we go back and forth and back and forth, without achieving much results
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Global warming is a crisis while at the same time an opportunity that can create a gigantic market as it takes a tremendous amount of investment to address it
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Now is the time to seek a grand bargain or package settlement. Through the six-party talks, North Korea would first dismantle the key elements of its nuclear program and then we would provide security guarantees and international assistance
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We must have a comprehensive and integrated approach to fundamentally resolve the North Korea nuclear issue
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With their historic responsibility in mind, the advanced economies must share these technologies so that new and emerging economies can join the efforts to tackle global climate change.
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We did not touch the fundamental issue, which is the complete dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear programme
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We must seek a packaged or 'grand bargain' resolution of North Korean nuclear issue, in which North Korea will dismantle key elements of its nuclear programs through the six-party talks while we will simultaneously provide security guarantees and international assistance to North Korea
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The reason North Korea is repeatedly insisting on direct talks is because it wants to be recognized as a nuclear state in order to proceed with arms reduction talks with the U.S.
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