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		<title>S. Korea Welcomes Obama’s Nomination of Kim for World Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Taejin Park and Sangwon Yoon - Mar 24, 2012 The South Korean government welcomed President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim, a Seoul-born U.S. citizen, to become the next president of the World Bank, the global lender that seeks to reduce poverty. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak’s office “highly appreciates” the nomination, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. Korea Seeks to Extend Missile Range Against North Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon - Mar 22, 2012 South Korean President Lee Myung Bak is seeking to extend the range of the country’s ballistic missiles in response to possible nuclear and missile attacks from North Korea, a presidential spokeswoman said. Lee yesterday told reporters that the government is in discussions with the U.S. to amend a 2001 accord that restricts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s Gaeseong Pushed for Inclusion in FTA</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/919</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sangwonyoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eunkyung Seo and Sangwon Yoon - Mar 22, 2012 South Korea is pushing to include the Gaeseong industrial zone in North Korea in its free-trade deals with the U.S. and Europe, a step that would deepen cross- border ties after the North’s leadership transition. “Unification is already taking place in Gaeseong, with daily encounters and shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grilled Rat for Welfare Shows Unification Hurdles for Korea</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/929</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon - Mar 19, 2012 Kim Tae Hee fled North Korea at age 16 and made her way to Seoul via China. Two years after arriving she is unemployed and dependent on government welfare to pay her food and electricity bills. “I thought life would be comfortable here, living in high- rise apartments and wearing nice clothes,” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea ‘Satellite’ Launch Plan Draws U.S. Rebuke</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/939</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sangwonyoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon - Mar 16, 2012 North Korea plans to launch an “earth observation satellite” in April to mark the 100th anniversary of state founder Kim Il Sung’s birth, drawing a rebuke from the U.S. and a warning such action jeopardizes a food-aid deal. The U.S. has told North Korea that a launch would be a “deal breaker,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.-Korea Free Trade Starts as Seoul Opponents Vow Repeal</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/941</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon and Eric Martin - Mar 15, 2012 The U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement took effect today as an opposition party vowed to repeal the accord should it win control of parliament in elections next month. Aides to President Lee Myung Bak, who pushed the deal, urged lawmakers to respect the agreement. The biggest U.S. trade accord in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea Opposition Parties Form Coalition to Improve Election Outlook</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/943</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon - Mar 9, 2012 South Korea’s two main opposition parties formed a coalition against President Lee Myung Bak’s ruling party in an effort to win next month’s parliamentary elections. Han Myung Sook, leader of the Democratic United Party and Lee Jung Hee, co-head of the United Progressive Party, signed an agreement today to form a “comprehensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea Police Arrest 6 for Spreading N. Korea Nuclear Accident Rumors</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/945</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Saeromi Shin and Sangwon Yoon - Feb 20, 2012 South Korean police arrested six people for spreading false rumors about a North Korean nuclear reactor explosion on Jan. 6 to manipulate the stock market. The six, including two office workers and a university student, conspired to circulate rumors through instant-messaging that a light-water reactor exploded in North Korea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea Holds Naval Drills as Warning From North Prompts Evacuations</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/947</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sangwon Yoon - Feb 19, 2012 South Korea held live-fire naval drills in disputed waters as a North Korean threat of “merciless punishment” prompted the evacuation of thousands of island residents nearby. The artillery exercises began around 10 a.m. today and lasted about two hours, said a South Korean Defense Ministry official who asked not to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Carving Marks Kim’s Birth as North Korea Burnishes Family Legacy</title>
		<link>http://sangwonyoon.com/archives/933</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Sangwon Yoon - Feb 16, 2012 North Korea today commemorates the birthday of late dictator Kim Jong Il, capping off weeks of celebration that included carving his name into the side of a mountain, as it tries to burnish the legacy of the Kim dynasty. The anniversary comes two months after Kim’s death and the succession of [...]]]></description>
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