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  • 11 Nov 2010
    Small is ignored, but has the capacity to weather a financial crisis

    The G20 nations are flying in to Seoul in South Korea today for the start of the two-day summit which will see a new development agenda discussed.

    Tonight, heads of state will gather for a working dinner before meeting tomorrow around the negotiating table proper. But for many of them it will only have been days since they saw each other last, with the US courting India and Cameron skirting the human rights elephant in the room during trade tête-à-têtes with the Chinese supremo.

  • 18 Jun 2010
    Koreans remember war and pray for peace

    South Korea's national church council is marking the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the 1950 to 1953 Korean War with a week of national reconciliation.

  • 4 Sep 2009
    World churches body looks towards Korea in 2013

    The election of a new General Secretary and the choice of Korea for its 10th assembly were key moments for the World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting ending this week.

  • 28 Jun 2009
    South Korean churches push for no-strings aid to the North

    A South Korean grouping of churches is urging its member churches and organizations to join a campaign to give North Korean children milk and bread "without any precondition".

  • 27 May 2009
    Latest North Korea statement on ‘truce’ adds to weapons tension

    The secretive hard-line communist regime in North Korea has reacted angrily to global condemnation of its recent nuclear weapons test, declaring that its ‘truce’ with South Korea may be over and that it will not back down.

  • 2 Jul 2008
    Seoul urged not to put pre-conditions to North Korea

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia has urged South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to "take urgent measures to strengthen inter-Korean relationships without any pre-conditions".

  • 13 Aug 2007
    International community urged to back Korea in hostage talks

    As two hostages are released today, the general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the Rev Dr Ishmael Noko, calls on the international community to South Korea in its efforts to secure the safe release of the remaining hostages still held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

  • 11 Aug 2007
    Taliban claim to have released two South Koreans

    Taliban militants in Afghanistan say they have freed two women from among the 21 South Korean hostages they are currently holding, claims a news report on the BBC. Two others have already been killed.