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blog:policy of ending unconditional handouts
August 17th, 2009 Posted 8:40 am
policy of ending unconditional handouts — once equal to about 5 percent of the North’s
estimated $17 billion a year economy — and instead linking aid to progress Pyongyang makes
in ending the security threat it poses to the region.”It is the iron will and resolute stand
of the Korean People’s Army to go into action anytime to mercilessly wipe out the
aggressors,” the northern military official said.The United States stations about 28,500
troops in South Korea to support its own 670,000 soldiers. The North has about 1.2 million
troops but analysts say they are ill-equipped and would be no match for U.S. and South
Korean forces.The two Koreas are technically still at war since no peace treaty was signed
after their 1950-53 conflict.KIM MEETS HYUNDAI BOSSKim’s meeting with Hyundai Chairwoman
Hyun Jeong-eun, one of the few South Korean executives to have direct dealings with the
North Korean leader, is his first major meeting with a prominent figure from the South in
nearly two years.
