Koreas – Germany stunned by South Korea fight back (Daily Telegraph)

Germany stunned by South Korea fight back (Daily Telegraph)
South Korea came from a goal down early in the second half to beat Olympic champions Germany 5-3 at the men’s field hockey Champions Trophy.

South Korea’s president says he’s ready to meet North Korean leader ‘anytime’ (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s president announced he is willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Il anytime to resolve the nuclear standoff on the divided peninsula and other issues.

South Korea field hockey champions (AFP via Yahoo! News)
South Korea came from a goal down early in the second half to beat Olympic champions Germany 5-3 at the men’s field hockey Champions Trophy here Sunday.

Lee says to meet N. Korea leader ‘anytime and anywhere’
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said Friday that he is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ”anytime and anywhere” if it will help resolve a dispute over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. ”I have no political reason to hold a summit (with Kim), but…I plan to meet (Kim) at any time and anywhere, as long as our objective of such a summit will be achieved,” he said in a live television program, according to Yonhap News Agency.

N. Korea offers talks with S. Korea on suspended Mt. Kumgang tours
North Korea has proposed talks with South Korea on ways of resuming lucrative cross-border tours to the North’s scenic Mt. Kumgang that were suspended after a shooting incident last year, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday. Yonhap quoted sources at Hyundai Asan Corp., the Hyundai Group’s North Korea business unit that operates the tour program, as saying the proposal came when Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong Eun visited Mt. Kumgang on the North’s east coast Wednesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the tour program.

Baby Boom of Mixed Children Tests South Korea (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
YEONGGWANG, South Korea — Just a few years ago, the number of pregnant women in this city had declined so much that the sparsely equipped two-room maternity ward at Yeonggwang General Hospital was close to shutting down. But these days it is busy again.

S. Korea says open to ‘formal offer’ from N. Korea on tourism talks
South Korea said Monday it is open to a ”formal offer” from North Korea for government-level talks to discuss resuming cross-border tours to the North’s scenic Mt. Kumgang that were suspended after a shooting incident last year. ”If North Korea sincerely wants to resume tours (to Mt. Kumgang), a formal offer for talks can be made anytime through channels that are in operation between the authorities,” Unification Ministry Spokesman Chun Hae Sung told a press briefing.

iPhone’s debut in S.Korea means paradigm shift: experts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Apple’s top selling iPhone made its debut in South Korea Saturday with experts saying the iconic smartphone is likely to serve as a wake-up call for an IT industry basking in an isolated market.

Growing dialogue reduces tensions on Korean Peninsula, expert says (EARTHtimes.org)
Seoul – Tensions are reducing on the Korean Peninsula as dialogue increases with North Korea, an economic security analyst said. The security status in Korea is moving away from confrontation towards dialogue, said Dong Yong Seung, who leads the ec…

2 Koreas to jointly survey industrial complexes in China, Vietnam
North and South Korea will conduct a joint industrial survey in China and Vietnam next month in an effort to further develop their joint industrial complex in the North’s border city of Kaesong, the South’s Unification Ministry said Thursday. The survey team will consist of about 10 people from each side and the period of survey will be about 10 days from mid-December, the ministry’s spokesman Chun Hae Sung told reporters.

Ex-U.S. envoy Pritchard ends 4-day trip to N. Korea
A group of U.S. experts on North Korea completed a four-day trip to the country Tuesday, saying they detected no change in Pyongyang’s stance on the nuclear standoff ahead of U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth’s planned visit there on Dec. 8. Charles Pritchard, a former U.S. special envoy for Korean peace talks, told reporters his three-member group held about six hours of discussions with Ri Gun, director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s North American affairs bureau, and had another four hours of talks with other North Korean officials.

Seoul not hopeful on N.Korea-US talks: Yonhap (AFP via Yahoo! News)
South Korea sees prospects for a US-North Korean meeting next month as “dark” because Pyongyang has yet to promise to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks, a news report said Sunday.

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