South Korea says U.S. wants revisions to FTA pact
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South Korea said on Sunday that the United States had proposed some revisions to a free trade agreement between the two countries, in areas including labor rights, environment and investment.
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South Korea rejects its first imports of US beef in three years on health grounds, threatening a key trade deal.
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Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and staged strikes to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions. Chanting ÂDown, down F.T.A.,Â thousands of protesters held a peaceful rally near the city hall in central Seoul, while hundreds clashed with police in the southwestern city of Gwangju. No injuries were reported. The protest comes less than two weeks before South Korean and American negotiators meet for their fifth round of free trade talks in the United States to hammer out an accord that would sharply reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. Seoul and Washington started the negotiations in June and have made some headway, but they are unlikely to wrap up an agreement by the end of this year, as originally hoped.
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The United States and South Korea failed to narrow differences this week over Seoul's rejection of American beef imports for containing banned bone fragments, South Korea said Friday.
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North Korea wants the standoff over its nuclear weapons program resolved in order to forge better ties with the United States, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Friday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought  South Korea's support on Tuesday for a U.S. hard line on North  Korea after China said Washington must be more flexible to  entice the reclusive state back to nuclear arms talks.
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South Korea and the United States have already begun talks about a possible agreement with North Korea formally ending the 1950-53 war on the peninsula, the US ambassador to Seoul said Thursday.
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South Korea proposed on Tuesday the opening of a regular train service with the North at talks that got off to a rough start with Pyongyang calling for the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills and a breach of etiquette.
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A top South Korean official on Sunday urged the United States to engage diplomatically with North Korea to resolve a dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program, comparing such a policy to President Nixon's decision to recognize China in the 1970s.
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The European Union on Friday said it was disappointed with South Korea's offer in talks on a free-trade agreement and called on Seoul to do more.
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The United States is prepared to pursue new approaches to resolve a standoff over North Korea's nuclear program, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea said Tuesday, urging the communist state to return to stalled disarmament talks.
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The US calls on leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group to help revive talks on a global trade deal.
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South Korea and United States have picked  up the pace of talks on a trade deal with an end-March deadline  looming, aiming to strike an agreement both countries'  legislatures will approve, the chief U.S. envoy said on Friday.
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South Korea's foreign minister sounded a note of caution ahead of six-nation talks on freezing the North's nuclear program, saying Wednesday there is far to go before a final agreement is reached. The negotiations &#151; which involve the United States, the two Koreas, China, Russia and Japan &#151; are set to resume Feb. 8 in Beijing.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun said Tuesday his government could scrap free trade talks with Washington if Seoul&#39;s economic interests are not properly reflected in a final deal.
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Thousands of South Korean union workers went on strike on Wednesday demanding laws to protect labor and an end to talks on a free trade deal with the United States, labor leaders said.
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The Bush administration said Friday it would comply with a World Trade Organization that penalizes some U.S. exports even as it tries to get Congress to change the law that prompted the sanctions.