Singapore: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday after talks with North Korea that she believed Pyongyang was under no ?illusions? it had to agree to a strong mechanism to verify its nuclear activities.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday urged North Korea to work to set up a regime for verifying its nuclear declaration and to address the abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents, a U.S. diplomat said.
SK TELECOM EARNINGS SK Telecom, South Korea's top mobile carrier, posted a worse-than-expected 26 percent drop in quarterly profit, hit by higher marketing costs and stalling growth in data revenue.
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry.
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SEOUL (Thomson Financial) - North Korea on Thursday threatened unspecified 'tougher counter-measures' after South Korea's defence minister labelled the communist state as an enemy which threatened national security.
South Korea 
