relations awe too dissimilar from that of post-1986 Vietnam. For example, Vietnamese and North Korean foreign policies have had little in common in the last two decades, and this difference may have been interrelated with the dramatic contrast between Vietnam's economic boom and North Korea's recurrent setbacks. This subject is certainly worth investigating, since many of North Korea's current pr
and iodine producer and growing source of gold and non-metallic minerals. Its economic size is relatively small and trade between the two countries is only a small percentage of South Korea’s total trade (Kim,S.Y. 2003:18).
2. Process for the Korea-Chile FTA
Before the FTA, South KoreaandMongolia were the only two members of the WTO with no bilateral trade pacts. In 1998, Korea Institute
diplomats who were accredited to Hanoi in the 1980s. Namely, the Hungarian diplomats whose reports I read managed to collect an impressive amount of confidential information about economic matters, state- society relations, anddiplomatic negotiations, because many VCP cadres, having conversations with the "fraternal" diplomats, skpe about the country's internal problems with remarkable frankness
and put off approving the new U.S. ambassador to China and canceled the scheduled visits to Washington by Defense Minister Chi Haotian and State Counselor Li Guixian. As a warning toward Taipei, Beijing suspended the second round of Wang-Koo talks, semi-official talks between China and Taiwan which discussed reconciliatory measures in cross-Strait relations, which was scheduled to take place in J