South Koreans protest free trade talks
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South Koreans defied a police order and took to the streets Saturday to protest free trade negotiations with the United States.
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The European Union's chief negotiator in free trade talks with South Korea said Friday that the current round of negotiations has yielded significant advances but added that contentious issues such as automobiles were not discussed.
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South Korean opposition lawmakers are staging a sit-in protest demanding President Roh Moo-Hyun stop his drive to regain wartime control over his army from the United States, party officials said.
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International agitators join mass protest
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Top government ministers from 21 Pacific Rim nations convened high-level talks on free trade and global security Wednesday as police battled university students protesting the summit and a weekend visit by President Bush.
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Thousands of South Korean farmers clash with police in Seoul after a rally against foreign rice imports.
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South Korean and U.S. negotiators start a round of crunch trade talks on Thursday, hoping to reach agreement before an end-March deadline which could lead to the biggest U.S. free trade pact in 15 years.
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South Korea Monday shrugged off North  Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear  materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the  mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks.
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Democrats signal intention to block trade agreements with South Korea and Colombia.
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As the Bush administration races to push free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea through Congress before leaving office next year, it is meeting a level of resistance observers call high even by the normally contentious standards of such debates.
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VIENTIANE, Laos South Korea and Singapore have concluded a free trade agreement at a regional summit meeting in Laos, the South Korean government announced on Monday.
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ROSTOCK, Germany  - Anti-globalization protesters converged on the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday to demonstrate against the policies of the world's leading industrial countries ahead of a Group of Eight summit next week.
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SEOUL, March 2 -- South Korea on Friday added pressure on North Korea to comply with an international disarmament agreement, refusing the impoverished nation's demand to restore full aid shipments until after its main nuclear reactor is shut down.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the  Democratic front-runner in the U.S. presidential race, said on  Saturday she would oppose ratification of a free trade pact  with South Korea because it would harm the U.S. auto industry,  among other things.
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Defying a strong government warning,tens of thousands of South Korean civil servants walked off their job Monday, demanding collective action and other full labor rights, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
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North Korea has filed a protest with the United Nations and the Red Cross, accusing South Korea and the United States of "kidnapping" its citizens, a North Korean weekly said.
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South Korea on Wednesday voiced concerns over the arrest of 65 North Korean asylum seekers in a raid by Beijing police and said it will ask China to allow the defectors to travel to Seoul.