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China holds key to North Korea problem - Seoul

SEOUL (Reuters) - The only way North Korea will give up nuclear weapons is if China finally abandons decades of support for the isolated state, a senior South Korean official said on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il shows his ballot during the 12th Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang April 9, 2009 in this frame grab taken from footage released by KRT. (REUTERS/KRT via Reuters TV/Files) In unusually direct comments, he said there were enough sanctions in place to force Pyongyang back to the negotiating table if China gave them its full backing following a surge in military threats by...

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EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton, right, shakes hands with her South Korean counterpart Kim Jong-hoon before their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The European Union is on the verge of wrapping up free trade talks with South Korea - possibly as early as this week - even as an already completed U.S. free trade pact with Seoul languishes in political limbo. Like the old tale of the tortoise and the hare, the slower-starting EU may end up outpacing the United States in first cementing closer trade ties with South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest econo

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

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