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| | ROK and Inter-Korean relations April 2004 |
 | | The United States and the rightist conservative forces of south Korea should stop crying over others' "human right issue" and solve their own serious human rights problems including the issue of unconverted long-term prisoners. | | | As ridiculous as it might appear to non-Koreans, both of these acts are still illegal here in democratic and free South Korea. | | | She is, however, left without care in south Korea, though she is waiting for the hour of death, utterly forsaken. |
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| | South Korea |
| | Korea forms a peninsula that extends some 1,100 km from the Asian mainland, flanked by the Yellow Sea (West Sea) to the west and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, and terminated by the Korea Strait and the East China Sea (South Sea) to the south. | | | The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea that the Japanese and South Korean governments ratified states that a bilateral dispute should be solved by talks. | | | Political, social and economic instability of South Korea in the past has driven many South Koreans to emigrate to foreign countries, particularly the United States and Canada. |
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| | FPCJ : Media Resources - Japan Brief - Japanese Newspapers Comment on Koizumi-Roh Summit |
| | Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun held talks for about two hours at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on the afternoon of June 20. | | | President Roh also mentioned their agreement on the principle of cooperation among Japan, South Korea, and the United States and affirmed the principle of peaceful settlement of the nuclear problem and the continuation of diplomatic efforts for this purpose. | | | Referring to the early resumption of the six-party talks and close cooperation among Japan, South Korea, and the United States, the Yomiuri stated, “South Korea has taken a reconciliatory approach toward Pyongyang by extending economic assistance, showing a stark difference with the stand taken by Japan and the United States. |
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| | South Korea - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South Korea |
| | Although South Korea's economic difficulties occurred in the context of major crises afflicting Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, its standing as the 11th greatest economy in the world meant that any major Korean collapse posed a greater threat to the stability in the South East Asian region. | | | From 1971 South Korea's industrial growth was one of the fastest in the world, particularly in international trade, with the country becoming a major exporter of light and heavy industrial goods. | | | The Republic of Korea was formed out of the zone south of the 38th parallel of latitude, the area occupied by US troops after Japan's surrender in 1945. |
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| | South Korea - definition of South Korea in Encyclopedia |
| | South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk (Hangul: 대한 민국; Hanja: 大韓民國)), is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean peninsula. | | | Statistics have been published purporting to show that almost 50 percent of South Koreans are Christians, but these figures are almost certainly inflated, due to the high incidence of dual membership and unrecorded transfers of membership among different denominations. | | | The highest judiciary body is the Supreme Court, whose justices are appointed by the president with the consent of parliament. |
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| | Release of Foreign Relations Volume on Korea Region, 1964-1968 |
| | The first documents bilateral relations between South Korea and the United States and underscores two main themes: The search for stability in the Korean peninsula and the Republic of Korea's growing self-confidence. | | | In part, Vance's success and the strengthening U.S.-South Korean relationship were due to the Republic of Korea's willingness to support U.S. policy in Vietnam and to contribute increasingly large numbers of troops and support units to the war effort in Southeast Asia. | | | On June 22, 1965, a Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was signed; after ratification it went into effect on December 18, 1965. |
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| | Korean adoptee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In May 1999, a group of KADs living in Korea started a signature-collection in order to achieve legal recognition and acceptance (Schuhmacher, 1999). | | | A Korean adoptee or KAD is a person who was adopted from Korea through the international adoption of South Korean children as a child and raised in another country, often by adoptive parents of another race, ethnic background, and culture. | | | The country was not prepared for the return of their 'lost children.' But the numerous adult KADs who visited Korea as tourists every year, in addition to raised public awareness of the KAD diaspora, forced Korea to face a shameful and largely unknown part of their history. |
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| | Nieman Foundation Seminars, Cho |
| | The current policy of the government toward North Korea may be said to be a concretion of President Kim's long held personal conviction about the unification policy. | | | In the past, the relations between South and North Korea were completely frozen on and off because of the emergence of one submarine vessel and one espionage vessel. | | | Although, there are various measures of predicting the future of Korea, the most important ones, in my view, are the state of economic development and the progress in the relations between South and North Korea. |
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| | South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Republic of Korea is the president, who is elected by direct popular vote for a single five-year term. | | | The highest judiciary body is the Supreme Court, whose justices are appointed by the president with the consent of parliament. | | | South Korea consists of 1 Special City ( Teukbyeolsi ; 특별시; 特別市), 6 Metropolitan Cities ( Gwangyeoksi, singular and plural; 광역시; 廣域市), and 9 Provinces( do, singular and plural; 도; 道). |
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| | North Korea could see dramatic change despite years of repression: Rumsfeld |
| | And South Korea will have a large say in the timing of any move from the demilitarized zone to the south because it must acquire the land and build the facilities where those troops will be based. | | | They were Rumsfeld's most slashing remarks against North Korea during a weeklong trip to Guam, Japan and South Korea in which the secretary appeared at pains to avoid interfering with efforts to arrange a new round of six-party talks with the North. | | | In Seoul, Rumsfeld and South Korean leaders reaffirmed plans to first consolidate the estimated 16,000 ground troops in camps along the Demilitarized Zone and then pull them back in a second phase into two hub bases south of the Han River. |
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| | South Korea: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | Republic of Korea (South Korea): Open letter to Acting President Goh Kun- Continued use of the draconian National Security Law: Amnesty International's concerns about Professor Song Du-yul's case | | | Republic of Korea (South Korea): Open Letter to all Leaders of Political Parties: An Important Duty to Revitalise Efforts to Fundamentally Repeal or Review the National Security Law | | | South Korea: Amnesty International condemns detention of a conscientious objector |
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| | South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The legislation was partly a response to the debate in 2004 over the relocation of the national capital, when it became widely known to the public that prominent national symbols of South Korea including the capital, national anthem, and official language were not specified anywhere in the written constitution. | | | The highest judiciary body is the Supreme Court, whose justices are appointed by the president with the consent of parliament. | | | After the war, South Korea went through several political turmoils: the autocratic government of Syngman Rhee was thrown out of power by student uprising and a brief period of civil rule was established in 1960. |
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| | RAND Hot Topics North Korea |
| | Those ready to pursue regime change in North Korea argue that President Kim Jong Il's actions demonstrate the futility of negotiations and the necessity of an international effort to isolate and pressure his regime to hasten its downfall, write Bruce Bennett and Nina Hachigian. | | | As South Korea moves toward reconciliation with the North on the basis of a strong a credible deterrence, the United States and South Korea need a strategic plan. | | | The United States is often criticized for favoring a multilateral approach in the six-party talks aimed at reversing North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons. |
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| | Kim Koo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | In 1948, the inaugural (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) Parliament of the Republic of Korea nominated Kim as a candidate for the office of the first president of the Republic. | | | Kim Koo became the president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in 1927, after serving the post of Police Minister. | | | He returned to (The capital and largest city of South Korea; located in northwestern South Korea) Seoul upon the Japanese surrender to the Allied in 1945. |
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| | Korea Teachers and Workers Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Its policial activity including the denouncement of President Roh Moo-hyun's impeachment and the endorsement of Democratic Labor Party led to the warning by Acting President Goh Kun, that it is violating the regulation which requires public servants including public-school teachers to keep political neutrality. | | | However, the South Korean government refused to authorise it in its infancy, stating that there was no precedence of teachers' union. | | | The Korea Educational Teachers and Workers Union (KTU; abbreviated to Jeon-gyojo) is a labor union of teachers in South Korea. |
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| | Home > Information and Resource Center > Awards and Prizes > The Japan Foundation Awards / Special Prizes (2000) > Ceremony and Reception > Chi Myon Kwan |
| | My heart's desire is that Japan's ties with North Korea will be transformed into the type of win-win relationship that has been established with South Korea, and that this will contribute to peace and prosperity throughout all of East Asia. | | | It is said that many issues were left unresolved by the "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea" of 1965, and some have many criticisms of the treaty itself. | | | Because I am from the same generation as President Kim Dae Jung, I came to understand and feel complete sympathy with the president's thoughts about Japan and his efforts to improve Korean-Japanese relations, and I wanted to assist in any way possible. |
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| | North Korea, Map and Flag |
| | conventional long form: Democratic People's Republic of Korea | | | KIM Chong-il has ruled North Korea since his father and the country's founder, president KIM Il-song, died in 1994. | | | North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community. |
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| | International Adoptive Families of Queesland |
| | Families who have adopted one or more children from South Korea Families or who are in the process of adopting from South Korea. | | | Representation by the President and Vice-President/ Department Liaison in meetings with the Department of Families and other intercountry adoption support groups for regular intercountry adoption meetings. | | | Members of the Korean Community who guide and support us in providing opportunities for our children to maintain and develop their understanding of the country and culture of their birth. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Asia / North Korea rolls out trade regulations |
| | Hyundai tycoon Chung Mong-hun was later indicted on charges his company helped the government of former President Kim Dae-jung secretly pay North Korea $100 million to get Pyongyang to agree to the historic summit between the Koreas. | | | The site now is just a field outside the ancient Korean capital of Kaesong, a city of 400,000 just north of the no man's land that separates North from South. | | | Communist North Korea has traditionally been an unattractive place to invest because of its isolation, political uncertainty, decrepit infrastructure and a lack of legal guarantees. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political pressure groups and leaders |
| | Congress of South African Trade Unions or COSATU [Zwelinzima VAVI, general secretary]; South African Communist Party or SACP [Blade NZIMANDE, general secretary]; South African National Civics Organization or SANCO [Mlungisi HLONGWANE, national president]; note - COSATU and SACP are in a formal alliance with the ANC | | | Federation of Korean Industries; Federation of Korean Trade Unions; Korean Confederation of Trade Unions; Korean National Council of Churches; Korean Traders Association; Korean Veterans' Association; National Council of Labor Unions; National Democratic Alliance of Korea; National Federation of Farmers' Associations; National Federation of Student Associations | | | Congolese Trade Union Congress or CSC; General Union of Congolese Pupils and Students or UGEEC; Revolutionary Union of Congolese Women or URFC; Union of Congolese Socialist Youth or UJSC |
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| | North Korea: What to do |
| | North Korea is a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship that pursues expensive military programs, even as millions of its citizens die of starvation. | | | While it should be obvious, it bears stating: the United States needs regime change in North Korea, sooner rather than later. | | | The United States should turn up the heat on North Korea in several ways. |
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| | South Africa |
| | South Africa was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant. | | | South Africa is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared between the President and the Parliament. | | | Notwithstanding the existence of the CCMA and specialist courts for labor disputes, the aim of industrial relations was to minimize the need for judicial intervention in labor relations, leaving it to the contending parties to resolve disputes whenever possible. |
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| | KOREA NEWS: NORTH + SOUTH: NORTH KOREA NEWS SOUTH KOREA NEWS HavenWorks.com/world/korea North Korean News. South Korean News. |
| | "South Korea's political landscape changed radically on Thursday as voters handed control of parliament to a progressive liberal party, backed by the suspended President Roh Moo-hyun, that was formed five months ago."... | | | "South Korean scientists have surmounted a key hurdle in stem cell research, reporting today that they have produced 11 human embryo clones of injured or sick patients and harvested individualized stem cells in a process that could be used to treat patients with their own genetically matched tissues."... | | | "South Korean scientists have succeeded in creating clones of human embryos, a major breakthrough for the promising field of stem-cell therapy and for the far more controversial endeavor of cloning a human being."... |
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| | Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - Cancelled talks put Korean diplomacy on hold |
| | The first cabinet-level meeting between the two sides since South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun took office on February 25 were expected to focus on inter-Korean exchanges and the North Korean nuclear crisis. | | | South Korea says communications with North Korea are effectively frozen after the cancellation of cabinet-level talks scheduled for this week. | | | Government officials say the talks were the last official channel of communication between the two Koreas. |
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| | Activists from Global South Spark A16 |
| | Eun-ji Kim (South Korea) of the Korean House of International Solidarity | | | Several participated in a press conference on Monday, April 10 to officially launch the campaign to boycott World Bank bonds, and in an action at the home of World Bank President James Wolfensohn (see the full account in this issue of Economic Justice News). | | | Patrick Bond* (South Africa), a professor at the University of Witwatersrand |
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| | Early U.S.- South Korea Diplomatic Relations Willard Dickerman Straight |
| | Later she introduced him to the President, and his diplomatic career took off. | | | There they were met by Edwin V. Morgan, the American Minister in Korea, and Willard Straight, his Private Secretary and Vice Consul, as well as by Korean officials. | | | It was these gifts that inspired Willard Straight to write and illustrate a satirical poem, "Alice in Plunderland", which he presented to an appreciative Alice during her Korean visit. |
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| | LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net. |
| | South Africa Unions want president to drop corruption charges and re-instate Zuma [BBC] 18-Aug-2005 | | | USA Five major Houston janitorial companies agree to fair process for thousands of janitors to freely choose whether or not to form a union with SEIU [Houston Justice for Janitors] For more info 13-Aug-2005 | | | Millions of workers use computers on the job today, and millions more perform repetitive tasks that dont involve a computer keyboard. |
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| | 1Up Travel > North-korea > Travel & Tourism Tourist Guide to North-korea |
| | Korea is a land in eastern Asia that consists of two states. | | | KIM Chong-il has ruled North Korea since his father and the country's founder, president KIM Il-song, died in 1994. | | | The other is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea--commonly called North Korea. |
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| | International Games News June 2000 |
| | Colonel Gianni Gola, President of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire, (International Military Sports Council or CISM), earlier this month sent a letter to the Presidents of the Republic of Korea, Mr. | | | Pakistan announced in March that it will not be ready for the 2001 South Asian Federation games which were to be held in Peshawar. | | | In April, Maccabi Australia president Tom Danos announced that Australia will not send a team to the 16th Maccabiah Games in 2001 as a result of the government's lack of progress in helping to compensate victims. |
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| | Society of Wetland Scientists International Chapter |
| | It is proposed that initially one chapter is formed for the whole of Asia, co-chaired by Isidro Savillo, Philippines, for South Asia, and Kwi-Gon Kim, Korea, for North Asia. | | | Upon my proposal to expand this chapter to include the whole of Latin America I received many positive responses. | | | It has been proposed that that chapter be expanded, and renamed, to include New Zealand and other countries close to Australia. |
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