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PRESS DIGEST - South Korean newspapers - Feb 23
23 Feb 2007 00:31:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
SEOUL, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of major South Korean newspapers on Friday, prepared by Reuters in Seoul. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not guarantee their accuracy.

CHOSUN ILBO

- U.S. human rights group Freedom House has decided to support Open Radio for North Korea with a $250,000 donation, according to its Web site.

- The city of Inchon said it will become a "Free English Zone" by 2020.

DONG-A ILBO

- South Korea will not provide rice and fertiliser to North Korea at the same time, a high-ranking government official said.

- In Berlin, North Korea's Kim Kye-gwan and U.S. envoy Christopher Hill discussed the possibility of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to North Korea.

JOONGANG ILBO

- In a joint poll by the JoongAng Ilbo and SBS TV, 53.1 percent of South Korean respondents said the Grand National Party is still doing a good job.

HANKYOREH

- The United States has agreed to transfer wartime control to South Korea in January 2012 and will make it official at South Korea-U.S. defence talks.

- A foreign ministry official said the U.S. visa waiver programme may be implemented by early next year.

- The government will create 200,000 jobs for South Koreans including 90,000 for social services.

THE KOREA TIMES

- The labour ministry said South Korea will accept up to 109,600 foreign workers this year, a rise of 4,600 from last year.
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The former secretary of North Korea's Workers Party, Hwang Jang-yeop (R), who defected to South Korea in 1997, and former South Korean President Kim Young-sam (2nd R), salute during a launching ceremony of the Committee for Democratization of North Korea (CDNK) in Seoul April 10, 2007. About 20 groups of North Korean defectors were set to form an alliance as the CDNK, to realize democracy in North Korea and strengthen their political influence ahead of the year-end presidential election in South Korea, CDNK said.



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