South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-hyun, second from right, shakes hands with a South Korean Army general at the Defense Ministry in Taejon, South Korea, Dec. 30, 2002.
North Korea's nuclear power
A South Korean deputy foreign minister conferred Sunday with top Russian diplomats on ways to defuse tension over North Korea’s nuclear bid. Kim Hang-kyung met behind closed doors with the Russian Foreign Ministry’s top Asian expert, Alexander Losyukov. He was also scheduled to confer with another deputy foreign minister, Georgy Mamedov, who is in charge of nuclear nonproliferation issues.
