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NK-joint event

Yonhap News AgencyMay 23, 2013 08:46
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has proposed holding a joint event with South Korea to mark the 2000 signing of a landmark inter-Korean declaration, a civic organization here said Thursday. June 15 is the 13th anniversary of the signing of the June 15th North-South Joint Declaration between liberal-minded late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The landmark declaration laid out a reconciliatory mode for the Korean Peninsula, pledging the two countries to jointly promote reunification and other economic and cultural cooperation.

Park-China-N Korea

Yonhap News AgencyMay 23, 2013 07:45
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Thursday she plans to use her upcoming visit to China to enlist the help of North Korea's most important ally in making Pyongyang realize that its bad behavior will never be rewarded. Breaking North Korea's behavioral pattern of seeking economic and other concessions through provocations was one of the major points of agreement that Park reached during her first meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington earlier this month.

European banks stop sending money to North Korea: aid groups

May 23, 2013 02:15
By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished country. Aid groups said if it became impossible to send enough money to operate, donors might withdraw support for their programs.

North Korea-weekly review-4

Yonhap News AgencyMay 23, 2013 01:01
*** INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS Inter-Korean Trade Nosedives amid Suspension of Kaesong Complex SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Trade between South and North Korea tumbled last month after the North shut down the jointly run industrial park in its border town of Kaesong, government data showed on May 21. The monthly inter-Korean trade volume came to US$23.43 million in April, down 88 percent from $194.27 million recorded the previous month, according to the data from the Ministry of Unification in charge of inter-Korean affairs.

NK-joint event

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 23:45
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has proposed holding a joint event with South Korea to mark the 2000 signing of a landmark inter-Korean declaration, a civic organization here said Thursday. June 15 is the 13th anniversary of the signing of the June 15th North-South Joint Declaration between liberal-minded late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The landmark declaration laid out a reconciliatory mode for the Korean Peninsula, pledging the two countries to jointly promote reunification and other economic and cultural cooperation.

Park-N Korea

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 06:30
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye urged North Korea Wednesday to immediately halt provocations and work with South Korea for peace on their divided peninsula, saying Pyongyang should never expect to gain concessions with bad behavior. "North Korea is continuing threats of provocations while rejecting our proposals for dialogue and launching guided missiles," Park said, dressed in a khaki helicopter jacket, during a ceremony marking the deployment of South Korea's first indigenously developed military helicopter "Surion."

basketball-Koreas

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 05:30
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- The top South Korean men's professional basketball league said Wednesday it hopes to set up an inter-Korean basketball tournament this summer. The Korean Basketball League (KBL) said it has received permission from the Ministry of Unification, which handles inter-Korean affairs, to contact North Korean basketball officials about organizing an All-Korean event. KBL officials said the tournament, if materialized, will take place in August at a yet-to-be-determined venue in South Korea.

businessmen-NK visit

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 04:46
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea won't allow its businessmen to visit their plants in North Korea until their safe passage across the border is guaranteed by Pyongyang through formal channels, a Seoul government official said Wednesday. The two Koreas currently have no direct channel of dialogue after Pyongyang cut off all phone links with Seoul in disputes over a joint industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong.

NK-military chief

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 02:45
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- Former North Korean armed forces minister Kim Kyok-sik has been posted as chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), a media report monitored in Seoul said Wednesday. The appointment was confirmed by the Korean Central Television station, which said Kim was one of the dignitaries present at the airport for Choe Ryong-hae's visit to China as the special envoy of the North Korean leader. The report only gave Kim's title and did not say when he was appointed.

Park-N Korea

Yonhap News AgencyMay 22, 2013 02:45
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye urged North Korea Wednesday to immediately halt provocations and work with South Korea for peace on their divided peninsula, saying Pyongyang should never expect to gain concessions with bad behavior. "While rejecting our proposals for dialogue, North Korea is continuing threats of provocations while launching guided missiles," Park said, dressed in a khaki military jacket, during a ceremony marking the deployment of South Korea's first indigenously developed military helicopter "Surion."
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