South Korea wants to increase its legal jurisdiction over the troops, who now are governed by U.S. law although they are on Korean soil.
Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii, says they are contemplating South Korean- or Japanese-style protectionism: red tape and other non-tariff barriers.
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Most of these are Chinese and Korean, and they are not always made welcome.
Again, these provocations are not new -- I think to your point -- but they certainly are not helpful to the North Korean people, and they're not helpful to the effort to bring North Korea into compliance with its international obligations.
They may not be restructuring Indonesian debt or South Korean banks, but they are making lots of money all the same.
South Korean analysts said they believe the new reports are an attempt by the North Korean leadership to show Kim is healthy and in control.
Since, for Korean banks, they are risk-free sovereign assets, the bonds are used to meet the bank's capital requirements and they are often held until maturity.
Moreover, his "axis of evil" speech has sent a strong message to the North Korean people that they are not forgotten -- and they are listening.
"To company with them is a disgrace for the clear and honest-minded Korean nation as they are ignorant in politics, vulgar in morals and lack elementary human nature, " the statement, attributed to North Korea's National Defense Commission, considered its most powerful organ, said of Mr. Lee's government.
They are called striped beakfish, and they are native to warmer waters near Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula.
To ensure that they are not bulldozed in future, Sovereign and other investors are appealing to South Korean retail investors for help.
And when it comes to South Korea, we've got a trade agreement up right now, they are sending hundreds of thousands of South Korean cars into the United States.
The South Korean voters are remarkably indifferent to North Korea, but they are not going to be happy about economic troubles, so a government must know how to keep North Korean regime reasonable or face problems during the elections.
But it's unclear how popular they are with other important members of the North Korean elite or the public at large.
And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.
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They are already reaching each other online and communicating with their Korean friends.
They are taken over the Friendship Bridge and handed over to Korean guards who, according to a witness, string the prisoners together by running a steel wire through their flesh.
There, they have virtually no contact with locals (South Korean tourists are rarely welcome in Pyongyang).
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Nor are they necessarily comprehensive: Nachi fixed only the English, Chinese and Korean versions of Windows.
Relations between the two Koreas are tense - they remain technically at war following the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice.
There will be many more bumps ahead: European, Chinese and Korean steelmakers are objecting to the joint venture, which they say will concentrate too much power in the hands of a single firm.
The South Korean constitution guarantees North Koreans citizenship after the government can establish that they are not spies.
Rumors abound that North Korean officials and their families are often sent to labor camps if they make a mistake.
The amounts they raise on global capital markets are pretty trivial: less than 2% of South Korean and Singaporean government debt is denominated in foreign currency, for example.
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They are hated for it, but their money is now starting to splash around the North Korean economy.
China's leaders are not a sentimental lot, and if they cling to an alliance with the North Korean regime it must be because they believe it in China's interests.
If the US and China are unable to come to terms with the conflict in the Korean Peninsula, it is unlikely they will come to terms with stabilizing their currencies continuing on a path of systematically devaluing currencies and creating a future threat of inflation while undermining a worldwide economic recovery.
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In the German and Korean cases, however, discrepancies in size, population and geopolitical clout were far smaller than they are between the rival regimes across the Taiwan Strait.
Chinese tourists are given warning, before leaving, to avoid commenting on North Korean politics and to be careful where they point their cameras.
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The German and Korean makers that send cars here would argue that they shouldn't pay because most of their workers are not here but in their homelands.
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