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N. Korea: S. Korea urges halt of trade with North (ronery Chia Head alert)
CNN ^ | 05/13/10

Posted on 05/16/2010 7:14:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

S. Korea urges halt of trade with North

By the CNN Wire Staff

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea is asking some companies to stop signing trade deals with North Korea, as tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship continue, South Korean media reported Thursday.

Government officials are asking companies that send raw materials to North Korea for processing to stop dealing with the North, Yonhap news agency reported.

However, the new measure does not apply to more than 100 South Korean companies that operate in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, Yonhap reported. Those companies employ about 42,000 North Korean workers, the agency reported.

The new measures come as South Korea investigates the mysterious March 26 sinking of a warship.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheonan; kaesong; nkorea; skorea

1 posted on 05/16/2010 7:14:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 05/16/2010 7:14:37 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Geez, CNN completely mangled the story compared to the other one you posted.


3 posted on 05/16/2010 7:57:27 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

If you think that bad check out CNN International they totally way far leftist than BBC world news is LOL!


4 posted on 05/16/2010 9:27:28 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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