An aide to Ms. Park said the economic delegation is intended to help ease investor concerns about geopolitical risks surrounding North Korea and promote the benefits of a U.S.-South Korea free-trade pact.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea's Unification Ministry on Friday rejected a demand from the North to repatriate nine of its citizens who defected to the South by boat over the weekend.
In high-tech South Korea -- which has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the world -- the StarCraft video game series has spawned devotion more akin to professional sports teams.
"We are expecting to discuss how South Korea and the US can co-operate to cope with North Korea's threats, to analyse North Korea's threats and to discuss how to further improve the South Korea-US military relationship, " ministry spokesman, Kim Min-seok, said.
But the country's intent - particularly towards South Korea - has raised concerns leader Kim Jong-un has plans for a ballistic missile system.
Finally, two of the Western nations obliged by geography to remain realistic about abiding dangers to their security - Finland and South Korea -- refused to agree to the Williams treaty.
Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose".
North Korea's neighbors -- China, Japan, Russia and South Korea -- and the U.S. have been engaged in a diplomatic effort for five years to persuade North Korea to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea reacted to a South Korean anti-submarine exercise early Thursday by saying it would meet "confrontation with confrontation" and war with "all-out war, " according to North Korean state-run media.
Injury stopped him making his Asian Cup debut until the final Group C game -- he won his 109th cap as a second-half substitute in Tuesday's 4-1 defeat by South Korea -- spurring him on to try and achieve the unthinkable: leading India to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
In some countries - Japan, Macau and South Korea - it will be over 40%.
He also told his South Korean counterpart that the US-South Korea alliance was "instrumental in maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula", Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement.
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- As the chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai group, Hyun Jeong-eun, faces business challenges few other executives can imagine.
We'll be welcoming Korea's -- South Korea's increasing global role.
First, advanced and generally friendly countries -- like Germany, Japan and South Korea -- that refrain from acquiring nuclear weapons in part because they trust the American nuclear umbrella to protect them.
The largest group of carol singers consisted of 15, 111 participants and was achieved by the Hong Myung-bo Foundation (South Korea) during the Hong Myung-bo Charity Soccer Game in Seoul, South Korea, on 25 December 2010.
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SEOUL, South Korea President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea failed to reach an agreement Thursday on a long-awaited free-trade agreement, and said they had decided instead to give their negotiators more time to work out differences, which revolved around Korean imports of American autos and beef.
Earlier, top-seeded favorites Guo Yue and Niu Jianfeng of China struggled to defeat ninth-seeded Kim Kyung-ah and Kim Bok-rae of South Korea 4-3 in a dramatic bronze medal match.
Eriksson has until midnight on Tuesday - after the South Korea friendly - to announce his final squad, although he has the option of replacing injured players up until the end of the month.
America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution and to show the North Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic stagnation and continued hardship.
The U.S. State Department has said North Korea must provide a complete declaration of its nuclear program to the United States and its partners in talks on the nuclear issue -- Russia, China, Japan and South Korea -- to break the deadlock.
This spring's annual U.S.-South Korea drills have incorporated fighter jets and nuclear-capable stealth bombers.
Help from the US - which has 28, 000 troops in South Korea - has until now been optional in minor skirmishes.
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Mr. Obama, on his first trip to Asia which will also include China and South Korea, said his administration would work out the issues that are currently blocking the U.S.-South Korea trade pact.
Detroit ultimately, albeit reluctantly, acquiesced to a U.S.-South Korea trade pact touching on similar issues of non-tariff barriers to trade that Japan raises.
In an effort to remind other countries developing fully automated combat forces -- like the US, India, and South Korea -- that "ve Germans are not all smiles and sunshine, " the European powerhouse held its first Grand Challenge-like competition this week, where autonomous robots brought in from around the continent showed off their driving, surveillance, and urban warfare skillz.
Most North Korean refugees leave via China and head for nations in South East Asia, from where they can get to South Korea - which provides financial assistance and training.
North Korea has also been angered by wide-ranging annual US-South Korea military drills, which ended a week ago.
Rich countries - Norway, South Korea, Singapore - have set up investment funds to provide for future generations.
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