Armed with a poisoned needle, a North Korean agent posed as a defector in order to reach South Korea. His mission was to kill an anti-Pyongyang activist. But the spy was unmasked by local authorities and arrested. Our reporters, Marie Linton and Guillaume Bression, met with the defector he was supposed to murder.
The recent G20 meeting in Seoul was generally criticized as not being successful in resolving currency issues and worldwide economic imbalances. Did anything positive come out of it? Oliver Griffith, Head of communications of the IFC tells us more about "the Seoul consensus".
After voters back home, Barack Obama’s now lost his lustre abroad, failing to woo his counterparts at the G-20 summit in Seoul. Also, a folksy George W. Bush times his return to coincide with the Democrats’ thumping in the midterm elections, Ireland’s troubles and why Iraq’s violent, fractious, and drawn-out manner of choosing a new government may have a bright side. Joining François Picard in The World This Week are Eric Pfanner, Christopher Dickey, Judah Grunstein and Dave Clarke.
After voters back home, Barack Obama’s now lost his lustre abroad, failing to woo his counterparts at the G-20 summit in Seoul. Also, a folksy George W. Bush times his return to coincide with the Democrats’ thumping in the midterm elections, Ireland’s troubles and why Iraq’s violent, fractious, and drawn-out manner of choosing a new government may have a bright side. Joining François Picard in The World This Week are Eric Pfanner, Christopher Dickey, Judah Grunstein and Dave Clarke.
International papers, Friday 11.11.2010: The violence that saw the Conservative Party headquarters in London ransacked makes the front page of all British dailies this morning. Elsewhere, we look at security measures in Seoul as the G20 summit kicks off. Also: Obama's honorary Korean name, a feature on the British Embassy's chef in Paris and a solution for toilet emergencies at music festivals!
For the G20 summit, the world leaders are gathering for meeting in South Korea amid reports of division and disagreement. In two days, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy is about to take over the leadership of the G20 from South Korea. He is already laying out his agenda with grandiose talk of overhauling the global monetary system. As G20 has many divisions, is it too much or too fast?
Cross-border traffic between North and South Korea resumed Tuesday after Pyongyang lifted tough border restrictions along its heavily fortified frontier following months of hostility.
The first formal talks in a year between North and South Korean officials have been delayed after a failure to agree on a location or agenda in the wake of rising tensions following Pyongyang's controversial missile launch.
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