Lee is the director general of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, tasked with enhancing South Korea's prestige abroad.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The rest goes abroad to Asia, Ghana and Europe. It is sold at a price determined on the world market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Mr.Obama urged Tehran to agree to a U.N.proposal to ship its uranium abroad for processing, adding that time for diplomacy on the issue is running out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

For his first trip abroad with an international arrest warrant on his head, President Omar al-Bashir chose another country that has long maintained a defiant posture towards western countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The United Nations Security Council later imposed sanctions on Pyongyang, which have impeded its efforts to sell conventional weapons abroad, a major source of income for the cash-strapped nation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Although many Democrats and some Republicans favor shutting down the detention center, which they argue has come to exemplify the extreme antiterrorism tactics that have hurt the U.S.image abroad, they oppose funding the closure before a plan is in place on what to do with the 240 detainees being held there.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir embraced Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gadhafi and thanked him for his warm welcome, as both leaders met at the Colonel's private tent in his home town of Sirte, President al-Bashir's trip to Ethiopia and Libya was his third visit abroad since a warrant was issued for his arrest on March 4 by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26