Koreas debate mineral exploration rights
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North and South Korea have opened working-level talks on ways to implement a deal swapping raw materials for mineral exploration rights, the South's Unification Ministry said Thursday.
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The two Koreas discussed on Tuesday  whether to cut back the first freight train service over their  heavily armed border for more than 50 years because there is so  little cargo.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North Korea might be planning a missile test, a newspaper reported.
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The planned resumption next week of six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear programs has fanned speculation about a U.S.-North Korean trade-off that is making both supporters and skeptics of a potential deal uneasy.
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The Kazakh state could seize oil fields and mineral deposits from private investors, Prime Minister Karim Masimov said Thursday, following a series of high-profile business disputes involving top foreign energy majors.
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South Korea and Japan are striving to convince the United States to keep alive a suspended project to build two light-water reactors in energy-starved North Korea, despite the lingering dispute over its nuclear weapons programs.
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Roh's move to do away with the security law has become the latest symbol of an ideological battle now raging in South Korea over whether detente with the North is happening too fast, too soon.
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The US and South Korea start talks to review aspects of a hard-won free trade agreement.
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Amid skepticism over North Korea&#39;s claim that a large explosion in its remote northern province last week was part of demolition work, international diplomats are slated to visit the blast site this Thursday.
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The proposed foreign takeover of WMC Resources has attracted more criticism, with concern the mining assets at stake could one day be an issue of national security.
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South Korean officials said Tuesday they were trying to verify North Korea's claim that a huge explosion last week was caused by the demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
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South Korea&#39;s nuclear and uranium experiments that were conducted years ago are under scrutiny at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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South Korea's political and intellectual class is looking back at the issue of Korean collaborators during Japan's colonial rule.
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Both the oil industry and environmental groups were united, at least in disagreement, on Friday by the province of Albertaâs decision to raise oil and gas royalty charges.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon said on Friday the nature of North Korea's uranium program remained unclear despite earlier allegations from the United States.
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The trading company Sumitomo said it and three partners planned to invest about $3.3 billion to develop a nickel project in Madagascar amid increasing worldwide demand for nonferrous metals. Sumitomo and the Korea Resources Corporation of South Korea will join with two Canadian companies, the Sherritt International Corporation and SNC Lavalin, to develop a nickel mine, build smelters and create shipping infrastructure, the company said. Production is expected to begin in the second half of 2010, said Sumitomo, based in Tokyo.
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Probably not, but events in the former Soviet republic could decide who controls valuable oil pipelines, two University of South Dakota panelists said Monday during a USD forum on the topic.