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Japanese destroyer collides with South Korean ship

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:23:44 +0000

A collision between a Japanese destroyer and a South Korean container ship in the waters off western Japan caused severe damage to both vessels.

The NHK World reports, “Japan’s Defense Ministry says the 5,200 ton Kurama and the 7,400 ton South Korean-registered Carina Star collided shortly before 8 PM on Tuesday, Japan Time, in the Kanmon Strait between Japan’s main islands of Honshu and Kyushu.”

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Former South Korean major-general arrested for leaking secrets to Saab

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:43:18 +0000

The Local reports as follows: “A former South Korean air force major-general was arrested on Friday on charges of leaking classified military information to Swedish defence and aviation company Saab, officials said.”

The information was alleged to have been to the Swedish company during a nine month period ending earlier this year.

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N. Korea agrees to talks with South

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:34:48 +0000

[The Korea Herald]– North Korea agreed Tuesday to South Korea’s proposal for talks later this week on preventing floods of cross-border rivers and resuming reunions of separated families, government officials in Seoul said, Yonhap News reported.

The North’s latest reconciliatory gesture comes just one day after it abruptly test-fired five short-range missiles in the East Sea.

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N. Korea received US$2.3 billion through past nuke agreements: lawmaker

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:29:20 +0000

[Yonhap News]– North Korea has received some 2.7 trillion won (US$2.29 billion) from South Korea and international partners since 1994 in return for false promises to scrap its nuclear program, according to a lawmaker on Monday.

For the Geneva Framework Agreement reached in 1994, the North received $1.98 billion worth of support from South Korea, the U.S., Japan and the European Union, which was mostly used in building light-water reactors, Rep. Kwon Young-se of the ruling Grand National Party said, citing a report submitted by the foreign ministry.

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Russian gas project suspended over Korean peninsula tension

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:44:01 +0000

[RIA Novosti]– A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.

Choo Kang-soo, head of South Korea’s state-run energy company Kogas, said Seoul would not build the pipeline through North Korea until Pyongyang officially asked the South to do so.

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S Korea President Lee Myung-Bak offers North ‘grand bargain’

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:40:32 +0000

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has offered North Korea a “grand bargain” to give up its nuclear program in return for aid and security guarantees, warning Pyongyang the proposal may be its last chance.

The conservative leader, speaking in New York ahead of a United Nations summit, criticized the approach of past six-nation talks on North Korea as doing little but rewarding the communist state’s bad behavior.

“We must have a comprehensive and integrated approach to fundamentally resolve the North Korea nuclear issue,” Lee said at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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NKorean envoys meet SKorean President Lee

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:04:27 +0000

Senior North Korean envoys on Sunday met South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak for the first time since he took office 18 months ago, raising hopes of an end to high tensions on the peninsula.

A presidential official confirmed the meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, which began at 9:00am (0001 GMT) and lasted about 30 minutes.

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