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A joint project between the Koreas to build an industrial park in the North was hailed as a symbol of detente, but it has now become another point of friction between the two countries.
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South Korea’s top nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone, not in photo, during their talk at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Monday, March 16, 2009. South Korea’s top nuclear envoy Wi held talks in Tokyo on...
