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Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. On the other hand, conservative President Lee Myung Bak of South Korea took office in February with a vow to get firmer with Pyongyang, criticizing his predecessors' "sunshine" engagement policy that he said failed to address the North's nuclear ambitions and despicable human-rights abuses. Yet despite their differing approaches, Obama's objectives...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
North Korea's intransigence over verification of its nuclear programme was likely to be aimed at extracting more aid from the countries seeking to disarm the Stalinist state, South Korea's Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan said. The...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... flood of refugees flowing into China if leader Kim lost control. South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said the North may be trying to strong-arm the international community into giving it more aid. "Its strategy has always been to create a crisis before resolving something, and trying to use that point to secure further concessions," he told a seminar. - Reuters
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... of U.N. Security Council resolutions.In a separate development, South Korea's foreign minister, Yu Myung-Hwan, has called on Iran to restore international confidence in its nuclear activities, following talks with his Iranian counterpart in Seoul on Thursday.Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the South Korean official that Tehran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.Also...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... no samples of nuclear material will be allowed to leave the country.South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan says the North is not living up to the nuclear verification deal it agreed to recently with the United States.He says the North Korean announcement is a direct contradiction of what South Korea and the United States have understood up to now. He expresses South Korea's regret about...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
South Korea Says North Creating Crisis Over Nuclear Sampling IssueBy VOA News13 November 2008South Korea's foreign minister says the North maybe trying to extract more concessions from the nations involved in negotiations over the regime's nuclear program.Yu Myung-hwan told reporters in Seoul Thursday that Pyongyang usually creates a crisis over a certain issue, and uses it to receive more aid...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan answers reporters' question during a news briefing at...
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NHatky (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... was a breach of sovereignty that would “certainly bring about a war.”South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Thursday that the top nuclear negotiators of South Korea and the United States were discussing the issue.“The sampling issue is the core focus of the verification measure,” Yu told South Korean media.Yu said Pyongyang might hope to press further concessions from the United...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... was a breach of sovereignty that would "certainly bring about a war."South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Thursday that the top nuclear negotiators of South Korea and the United States were discussing the issue. "The sampling issue is the core focus of the verification measure," Yu told South Korean media. Yu said Pyongyang might hope to press further concessions from the United...
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The Eagle World (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... to ensure Pyongyang is not hiding any active atomic programs.South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Thursday that the North's latest refusal could be a ploy to secure more aid for the deeply impoverished country.North Korea has always "created a small crisis before resolving a certain issue, and received something in the process of resolving it," Yu said.U.S. officials said last...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... resolving something, and trying to use that point to secure further concessions," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told a seminar.North Korea reached a deal last month to resume disabling its Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear plant and allow in inspectors to verify claims it made about its atomic arms program after the United States removed it from a terrorism blacklist and rolled back trade sanctions."Sampling...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... resolving something, and trying to use that point to secure further concessions," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told a seminar.North Korea reached a deal last month to resume disabling its Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear plant and allow in inspectors to verify claims it made about its atomic arms program after the United States removed it from a terrorism blacklist and rolled back trade sanctions."Sampling...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
(AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan answers reporters' question during a news briefing at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. A North Korean diplomat said the communist country is "ready to deal with" any new U.S. policies following Barack Obama's election to the presidency as talks continued over dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program....
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... positive comments contrasted with the North's campaign against conservative President Lee Myung-bak of the South, who the North has called "despicable human scum" for his pledge to get tough with its neighbor."If the Obama administration takes the lesson of the previous government and comes to dialogue with a more forward-looking position, then the situation of 'communicating with the U.S....
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... a policy Bush has now embraced.On Friday, Obama spoke by telephone with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and pledged to work closely together with the Asian ally to help resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff and the global financial turmoil.Obama called the U.S. alliance with Seoul a "cornerstone" of Asia's peace and stability, Lee's office said.The United States helped defend South...
