This comprises all of the above plus South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and the EU, but not Egypt.
Late last year America quietly started informal meetings with a group made up of the G7 club of rich economies plus Australia, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Analysts also said gold is underpinned by ongoing European debt issues, a continuation of central-bank buying after Bank of Korea purchases, plus still-soft U.S. economic data that means continued loose monetary policy and perhaps even more stimulus.
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The ASEAN nations plus India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand actually agreed to form instead a new club with China in, and the United States out.
Analysts believe that by upgrading relations with India, Asean Delhi will provide a strategic balance to North Asia's influence, now that there is a regular summit with China, Japan and South Korea, known as Asean plus three.
The six-party process that draws in North Korea's four neighbors, plus the United States, will remain the strategic platform, with China the key player in nudging Pyongyang along.
It was a three-minute bare-bones account that echoed the facts from North Korea's official media, plus a chronology of the major events of his life, intercut with stock footage.
North Korea wants an apology for colonial occupation plus reparations.
Nuclear weaponry is an old standby and now the deployment camp is widening to include Iran and North Korea, two inherently threatening regimes, plus all the stateless terrorists they can deal with. (We already had precarious Pakistan to contend with.) Superbugs of the viral kind are another scary prospect.
That is to say, it undertook to donate to North Korea two large plutonium-producing reactors (pressuring Japan and South Korea to foot most of the bill) plus give Pyongyang half a million tons of fuel oil each year.
Now, as North Korea continues to expand its 1, 000-plus missile arsenal and nuclear capability, Iran is racing ever-closer to having its own nuclear weapons.
Every year, we have the ASEAN Summit plus the three East Asian giants -- China, Japan and Korea.
They'll also discuss, I'm sure, a range of security issues -- North Korea, Iran in the context of the P5-plus-1 talks, as well.
The U.S. provides a nuclear umbrella for 30-plus countries, including several -- Japan, Germany and South Korea, for example -- capable of developing their own nuclear weapons.
The United States also committed to join partner nations next year for the third ARF Disaster Relief Exercise co-hosted by Thailand and South Korea and the inaugural ASEAN-led, ADMM-Plus HADR and Military-Medicine Exercise hosted by Brunei.
Mr. Clinton has called the visit "a big plus" for the prospects of reconciliation between the United States and Communist North Korea.
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The festival peaks on Whitsunday (19 May) with a street parade, which features colourful dance groups from Korea and Japan, trucks blaring music from Brazil and Angola, plus Irish folk, Jamaican dancehall, Caribbean soca and more.
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