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Armitage Sees New Talks With North Soon

Visiting U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Richard Armitage said Wednesday that the United States could soon resume talks with North Korea "At the moment, we are not talking with North Korea on anything, but I suspect that we will in the near future," Mr. Armitage told the press Wednesday evening after meeting President Kim Dae-jung and Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo. "As soon as we've completed the policy review, we want to come to talk to Presid…

May 10,2001
Seoul Makes Protest Official

Terusuke Terada, Japanese ambassador in Seoul, was called in by Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo Tuesday to receive Seoul's demand that corrections be made in 35 passages in eight Japanese history textbooks, including those related to the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 and the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592. Mr. Han asked for a prompt and forthcoming response from Tokyo. "Japan should remember the international promises it made in the …

May 09,2001
Exercise Scrapped Over Japan Texts

The Ministry of Defense put off indefinitely Tuesday the second joint Korea-Japan maritime exercise scheduled for early June to protest the controversial Japanese history textbooks. "We believe that military exchanges between Korea and Japan should be pursued through mutual trust, and Korean people's support, based on correct view of history," the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement. The ministry is also considering postponing…

May 08,2001
Blue House Says Reform Efforts to Go On

The Blue House firmly rejected Tuesday calls for President Kim Dae-jung to finish up reform programs under way but take no new initiatives during his remaining time in office. "Reforms are an inevitable choice for the nation's future," said Blue House spokesman Park Joon-young after a meeting with the President. "They are the reason for the 'government of the people,' and the times call on us to push ahead in earnest with reforms." The Mill…

May 08,2001
Officials Give Details Of Kim Jr.'s Travel, Government Activities

A senior South Korean government official said Monday that Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is formally in charge of naming the key officials of the North's government and Workers' Party. Considering that Kim Jong-il occupied the same post - director of organization supervision of the Workers' Party - before succeeding his father, Kim Il-sung, it seems likely that Kim Jong-nam is being groomed to be the next lea…

May 07,2001
MDP Brass Turn to Social Issues

Members of the Supreme Council of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party put aside their presidential ambitions Monday to tackle social issues directly related to the public's well-being. The nine members of the council called on the party and President Kim Dae-jung to pay attention to public opinion and concentrate on completing the implementation of reform programs rather than launching new projects. The council's actions are stirring spe…

May 07,2001
Uncertainty Prevails Ahead of Seoul Talks

The scheduled visits by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs James Kelly have sparked guessing within the Seoul government on what the visits will mean for the future of inter-Korean affairs. Mr. Armitage and Mr. Kelly will arrive in Seoul on Wednesday for two days of working-level consultations with South Korean officials. During the landmark visit to Pyongyang by a Europea…

May 07,2001
U.S. Urged to Engage North

Some 113 leaders of various sectors of society, led by the Korea Peace Forum, sent an open letter to U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday demanding that the U.S. administration support Seoul's reconciliation policy toward the North and a second inter-Korean summit talks. Among the signatories were Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Seoul, Kang Won-yong, president of the Korea Peace Forum, Song Wol-joo, president-eme…

May 07,2001
Assemblymen Take Texts to Japan Court

Four Korean legislators will request the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday to temporarily hold off publishing and distributing distorted Japanese history textbooks. Ham Seung-heui and Song Young-gil, assemblymen of the New Millennium Democratic Party, Kim Won-wung, a member of the Grand National Party and Bae Ki-sun, a member of the United Liberal Democrats, said Sunday that they will ask the Japanese court for a temporary injunction. The Kor…

May 06,2001
'Kim Watch' Fails to Spot Northbound Mystery Man

BEIJING － Contrary to earlier expectations, a man who reportedly identified himself to Japanese authorities as North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-nam, did not leave for Pyongyang Saturday afternoon on a North Korean airline flight, Chinese sources said. The sources confirmed that the group, including two women and a boy, did not board the regularly-scheduled 11:30 a.m. Air Koryo flight to Pyongyang. The flight left an hour late. T…

May 06,2001

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