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Korea's new trade minister vows aggressive posture in trade dealings

August 4, 2017 at 9:51 AM
South Korea's new trade minister plans to be aggressive in dealing with trade negotiations, he said this week. “There is no future in trade if we keep to a defensive position,” Kim Hyun-chong said in his inauguration address on Friday, according to a Korean business publication. Kim was the country's chief negotiator for the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and one of his first tasks will be dealing with a U.S. request for a special session of the deal's joint committee...


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