He has tried South Korea: two years ago a summit in Pyongyang with South Korea's president, Kim Dae-jung, ended with promises of large dollops of South Korean aid in return for greater contact across the inter-Korean divide.
He became South Korea's president only after losing three previous election bids and coming out of retirement.
The Uri party, which supports South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun, won a majority in the national assembly.
"I assured her we will be there for them, " Mr. Corker said of his meeting with South Korea's president.
As South Korea's president, he traveled to Pyongyang in 2000 to meet Kim Jong Il in a historic meeting.
South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, faces criticism at home for not having retaliated more robustly to last month's shelling.
Meanwhile, South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun spent the day conferring with top advisers.
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye has warned that the country is facing "unprecedented" political deadlock which is hampering economic progress.
South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun, was elected in 2002 after flirting with the anti-American sentiment popular among South Korea's younger voters.
SEOUL A spokesman for South Korea's president has called reports he sexually harassed a woman false and has vowed to take action.
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On Monday, Mr Bush issued a joint statement with Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea's president, calling for the six-way talks to be resumed.
"There is no reason or need to give up on dialogue at this point, " said Cheon Ho-sun, a spokesman for South Korea's president.
South Korea's president recently offered to build roads and ports in the North and urged the government in Pyongyang to resume official talks.
The backslapping that took place last year, with visits by South Korea's president and America's then secretary of state, now seems rather distant.
"We're looking into the cause of the shutdown, but we can't say North Korea is behind it, " said a spokesperson for South Korea's president.
This week, South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung inaugurated work on rebuilding the 320km (200-mile) link, and the road that used to run alongside it.
"We're looking into the cause of the shutdown, but we can't say North Korea is behind it, " said a representative for South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye.
South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, is expected to enjoy a state dinner at the White House next month, adding symbolic weight to the importance of the alliance.
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Yet back in Seoul, South Korea's president, Kim Dae Jung, is still relying on his policy of trying to engage the North in some sort of dialogue.
Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president-elect who is set to take office on February 25th, was cleared by a special prosecutor of involvement in a financial fraud in 2001.
But South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, was equally keen.
On February 25th, Roh Moo-hyun will be inaugurated as South Korea's president at what is starting to look like one of the bleaker moments in his country's history since 1953, when the Korean war ended.
On June 12 South Korea's president will make the short step but giant leap from Seoul to Pyongyang, to meet the North's Kim Jong Il for the first-ever inter-Korean summit in half a century of division.
South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak got up before sunrise to watch Yang become the first player to defeat Woods at a major in which the American held a lead entering the last round and his office confirmed he telephoned Yang to offer his congratulations.
The visit by Ms Park, South Korea's first female president, came as the US and South Korea mark 60 years of their military alliance.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist crack.
Of all leaders in the region, most deserving of support today is South Korea's new president, Kim Dae Jung.
Late last week, South Korea's new President, Park Geun-hye, warned that the security situation on the Korean Peninsula was "very grave".
Spending on science and technology is expected to increase under South Korea's incoming President Park Geun-hye, who takes office next month.
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