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...Hong Kong stock exchange. Trading in its shares was halted Sept. 30 at the request of the company and it later came to light that Yang had raised money by selling nearly 82 million shares last month for a few cents each, dropping his stake to 49%. Lee Jong-suk, a China watcher at Sejong Institute, a Seoul think tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still...
...symbolic step that Seoul said would "lay a bridge of reconciliation." Ceremonies to mark the start of construction were held on both sides of the 4-km-wide, landmined buffer zone that has divided communist North and capitalist South since the Korean War ended in 1953. Kim Suk Soo, South Korea's Prime Minister-designate, said the rail links would allow the two Koreas to build a "single economic community," reviving the North's ailing economy and helping the way to reunification of the two states. EARTH Upside Downside The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica will start shrinking...
...NOMINATED. KIM SUK SOO, 69, former South Korean Supreme Court judge, to be the country's Prime Minister; in Seoul. His bid needs the approval of the opposition-controlled parliament, which recently rejected President Kim Dae Jung's first two nominees to the largely ceremonial post...
...weapons of mass destruction. If so, the ploy worked?Washington withdrew the offer of talks soon after the clash. Meanwhile, the death of four South Korean sailors has made many South Koreans wonder whether Kim's strategy of engaging the North is worth it. Says Seoul businessman Kim Han Suk: "They have nothing to lose. They could do something like this again...
...shipbuilder?which gives him credibility among conservative voters who want a financially savvy candidate. With younger voters, Chung can position himself as a fresh face who has steered clear of Seoul's merry-go-round of political corruption. "Economically he emphasizes growth, politically he pushes reform," says Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Seoul's Ewha University. "If he persuades people he can do both, he has a very good chance...