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

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...