Sangwon Yoon south korean journalist reporting on asia and the middle eastskype:sangwon.yoon1
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Posts Tagged ‘aid’
S. Korea Optimistic Aid Will Bring North Back to Talks
By Peter Hirschberg and Sangwon Yoon - Feb 2, 2012 South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy is “optimistic” that inducements offered by the U.S. and his country will persuade North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, to resume talks aimed at ending the regime’s atomic program. “The prospects of the normalization of the relationship between Pyongyang and the international community, [...]
North Korean Trade Rebounded in 2010 From Growing Partnership With China
By Sangwon Yoon - Jan 17, 2012 North Korea’s trade expanded more than 20 percent in 2010 to $6.1 billion on growing business with China even as the economy shrank for a second year, South Korea’s national statistics office said. Trade volume increased 22.3 percent in 2010 after a 10.5 percent decline in 2009, Statistics Korea said in its annual [...]
NKorea suffered serious flood damage last month
North Korea reports serious damage from floods that destroyed homes and roads, hurt economy The Huffington Post | August 5, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ Flooding last month caused serious damage in North Korea, destroying homes, farms, roads and buildings and hurting the economy, state media said Thursday. About 36,700 acres (14,850 hectares) of [...]
SKorea allows aid to be sent to North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ South Korea approved sending humanitarian aid to North Korean children Wednesday despite its punitive measures on the impoverished country for the deadly sinking of a warship. North Korea, which has faced chronic food shortages since flooding and mismanagement destroyed its economy in the mid-1990s, typically falls at least 1 million [...]
English graduate urges Burma aid
An Oxford graduate has launched an appeal to University students to aid victims of cyclone-devastated Burma.