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	Democratic Labour Party (South Korea) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Labour Party(DLP) (Korean hangul: 민주노동당; hanja: 民主勞動黨; revised: Minju Nodong-dang; McCune-Reischauer: Minju Nodong-dang) is a political party in South Korea, established in January 2000.
		It was founded in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(Minju Nochong in Korean), the more leftist of the two union federations in South Korea.
		The party gained 10 seats in the National Assembly for the first time in the 2004 parliamentary election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Labour_Party_(South_Korea) (134 words)

	Korea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		South Korea has some 200 institutions of higher learning, about one half of which are in Seoul; these include colleges and universities, graduate schools, junior colleges, and other specialized institutions.
		North Korea, although nominally a republic governed by a representative assembly, is actually ruled by the Communist party (known in Korea as the Korea Workers’ party).
		A political party funding scandal in 2003 implicated the main South Korean parties and many businesses, but it was overshadowed in early 2004 by the impeachment of the president over a relatively minor election law violation, which involved his public support for the new Uri party (the president is required be politically neutral).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ko/Korea.html (4535 words)

	Governments on the WWW: Korea (Republic)
		Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Vienna, Austria
		Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Korea in Aarhus, Denmark
		Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Madrid, Spain
	www.gksoft.com /govt/en/kr.html (299 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		South Korea's longtime dissident Kim Dae Jung won the December 1997 presidential election on behalf of the National Congress for New Politics (subsequently renamed the Millennium Democratic Party, MDP) marking the first-ever shift of political power to the opposition from the ruling parties in the nation's history.
		South Korea's judiciary has shown increasing independence in recent years; however, the image of judges was damaged by several scandals concerning alleged illegal influence and cronyism.
		South Korea's political parties are relatively young and still fluid in nature; all major parties active in 2000 were organized between 1990 and 1995.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Rok1.htm (739 words)

	MSN Encarta - South Korea
		The highest court in South Korea is the Supreme Court, consisting of 14 justices (including the chief justice).
		South Korea also provides for a Constitutional Court, which passes judgment on the constitutionality of laws (when requested to do so by the courts), impeachment matters, and the dissolution of political parties.
		The nine provinces are Gyeonngi Province, Gangwon Province, North Chungcheong Province, South Chungcheong Province, North Gyeongsang Province, South Gyeongsang Province, North Jeolla Province, South Jeolla Province, and Jeju Province.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562354_9/South_Korea.html (527 words)

	List of political parties in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Korea has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which parties have a chance of gaining power alone.
		It is the heir of South Korea's traditionally conservative political elite.
		It was formerly the major liberal party and the second-largest party prior to the election, but sustained the biggest loss in the backlash following its leading role in the impeachment of Roh, as much of its support shifted to the Uri Party, with which discussions to merge are likely.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_South_Korea (513 words)

	South_Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk (Hangul: 대한 민국; Hanja: 大韓民國)), is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.
		The main political parties in South Korea are the Uri Party, the Grand National Party (GNP), the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), and the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP).
		Korea forms a peninsula that extends some 1,100 km from the Asian mainland, flanked by the Yellow Sea (West Sea) to the west and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, and terminated by the Korea Strait and the East China Sea (South Sea) to the south.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=South_Korea (3971 words)

	Situation and Outlook
		North Korea is a land mass slightly smaller than Mississippi that borders the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea.
		South Korea is located between the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea, and encompasses about 38,000 square miles with a population of 46.1 million people.
		South Korea was ruled by military dictators, presidents elected by controversial elections, and scattered civilian rule until 1987.
	www.ianr.unl.edu /kendrick/425/Japan-Korea.htm (3858 words)

	Global Beat: Dialogue and Negotiations With Political Parties and Organisations in South Korea Called For (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This was stressed in a letter addressed to the political parties and organisations in south korea which was adopted at the joint meeting of the political parties and organisations of the DPRK held in pyongyang on February 18.
		If South Korea were to truly value the national dignity and interests and chooses the road of independence, we would join efforts to improve North-South relations and would do everything to develop genuine fraternal relations, where the warm blood of consanguinity flows and the brotherly love is felt.
		As politicians in South Korea who have also suffered immeasurable damage because of the National Security Law and the NSP have called for its unconditional and complete abolition on every occasion, there is no reason for the South to be unable to completely and unconditionally remove the National Security Law and the NSP.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/asia/KCNA021898.html (2501 words)

	BBC News \| Business \| South Korean parties agree reforms
		South Korea's political parties have agreed to pass reform bills to meet the terms of the International Monetary Fund bailout for the country.
		The economic programme agreed by South Korea and the IMF called for the passage of fiscal reforms this year and the parties said this condition would be met.
		In South Korea, the won fell by more than 10% and stocks dropped by 4%, despite Mr Kim's insistence that he would stick to a proposed $57bn IMF bailout for the troubled South Korean economy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/business/41396.stm (291 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		This Thursday and Friday in Washington, meanwhile, South Korea and the US have been holding their eighth round of talks on the future of the alliance and on moving the Yongsan garrison out of Seoul, where its presence is deeply resented.
		South Korea's rapprochement strategy is based on the principle of good cop, bad cop, with the United States Forces in Korea (USFK) playing the perennial bad cop.
		South Korea is investing great sums in certain limited but high-profile military platforms, including advanced US F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft, and has ambitious plans to construct by 2012 a naval fleet of six 4,200-ton destroyers, three 7,000-ton destroyers and state-of-the-art submarines, all with the most advanced US Aegis combat systems and stealth technology.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FE07Dg01.html (1864 words)

	South Korea: A political history
		The division of Korea after WWll and the subsequent war with the communist North shaped the early politics of the Republic of Korea, which was proclaimed in August 1948.
		Throughout the 1950s, the South was sustained by crucial US military, economic and political support, enabling it to overcome attempts by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) led by Kim Il Sung, to undermine the regime.
		Syngman Ree was President of the Republic of Korea until April 1960, using the cloak of anti-communism to rule autocratically, limiting political freedom.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/088.html (580 words)

	South Korea (08/05)
		Korea has experienced one of the largest rates of emigration, with ethnic Koreans residing primarily in China (1.9 million), the United States (1.52 million), Japan (681,000), and the countries of the former Soviet Union (450,000).
		South Korea is a republic with powers shared between the presidency, the legislature and the judiciary.
		South Korea’s judicial system comprises a Supreme Court, appellate courts, and a Constitutional Court; the judiciary is independent under the constitution.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2800.htm (3705 words)

	Challenges of Building a Korean Peace Process: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Political and economic transitions in both South and North Korea have dramatically changed the context and prospects for initiating a Korean peace process.
		North Korea's economic distress has increased its dependence on China and the international community; however, its political structure--and the power of Kim Jong Il as its ultimate authority--remains intact in spite of the emergence of public differences among its bureaucratic organs and the rise of corruption among North Korean cadres at the highest levels.
		Additional political and financial support for South Korea's efforts to pursue a dialogue with North Korea may be required from Washington as part of a broadened and well-coordinated approach to North Korea.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/early/Korea.html (7970 words)

	Political parties (from South Africa) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The all-white National Party (NP) was the dominant parliamentary party from the time it came to power in 1948 until 1994.
		The party was formed from the coalition that won control of the government in the elections of 1910, making Botha the first prime...
		South Africa is bordered by Namibia to the northwest, by Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, and by Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast and east.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-44044 (891 words)

	South Korea: a brief social and political history
		A brief examination of the social and political history and structure of South Korea.
		By then, WWII was over and the UN declared that Korea be split at the thirty-eighth parallel of latitude and divided between the two allied super powers - the US and the Soviet Union.
		South Korea’s political parties were suspended in 1961, but reinstated in 1963.
	mnmn.essortment.com /southkoreahist_rvih.htm (684 words)

	ROK and Inter-Korean relations March 2004
		He came back to the South despite the expected punishment, and the society should acknowledge his academic achievements.'' ``However, we pass down a heavy punishment, as joining the workers' party is a serious violation of the security law.
		Park Geun-hye, the newly-elected chairman of the Grand National Party, has long said that she would not walk in the shadow of her father, President Park Chung Hee, who was assassinated in 1979 after ruling South Korea with an iron grip for 18 years.
		By Byun Duk-kun Staff Reporter The foreign community in South Korea on Wednesday dismissed the move by the country's opposition political parties to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun by saying it is only the last strain of the opposition's political strife aimed at the general elections.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprk/SK_0403.htm (5487 words)

	Republic of Korea (South Korea): Open Letter to all Leaders of Political Parties: An Important Duty to Revitalise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a leader of a major political party, representing newly elected members of the 17th National Assembly, I’m writing to you to urge your party to consider a repeal or review of the National Security Law (NSL) when it is discussed during this parliamentary session.
		Amnesty International would like to bring to the attention of leaders of the political parties and the newly elected members to the 17th National Assembly recommendations consistently made by United Nations bodies on repealing or fundamentally reviewing the NSL to bring it in line with international standards.
		Amnesty International urges the leaders of the political parties and members of the 17th National Assembly to repeal or review fundamentally the National Security Law to bring it into line with international standards regarding clarity of criminal law, and the safeguarding of freedom of expression and association.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGASA250092004 (1408 words)

	CNN.com - South Korea plans to loan imported grain to North Korea - September 9, 2000
		South Korea's main opposition Grand National Party opposed any massive grain loan for North Korea, accusing the communist regime of diverting outside food aid to feed its 1.1 million-member military, the world's fifth largest.
		The two Koreas held their first summit in June and agreed to promote economic exchanges and political reconciliation after five decades of enmity.
		For a sixth straight year, North Korea's farm industry was damaged by bad weather this year, forcing the country to depend on outside aid to feed its people.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/09/09/koreas.food.loan.ap (631 words)

	Korea, Republic of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Republic of Korea (Korea) is governed by a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature.
		The Government's rationale for retaining the NSL was that North Korea actively was trying to subvert the Government and society and as a result, some forms of expression had to be limited to block the greater danger to freedom and democracy posed by North Korean totalitarianism.
		It was difficult to estimate the number of political prisoners because it was not clear whether particular persons were arrested for merely exercising the rights of free speech or association or were detained for committing acts of violence or espionage.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18250.htm (9538 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Korea, South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Korea was an independent kingdom for much of the past millennium.
		Thereafter, South Korea achieved rapid economic growth with per capita income rising to roughly 14 times the level of North Korea.
		South Korea today is a fully functioning modern democracy.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ks.html (1456 words)

	World: Koreans march against corrupt politicians
		This week, however, political parties angered the activists by nominating many on the list for the election.
		In South Korea, political bosses nominate virtually all the candidates for their parties.
		All political parties in South Korea are regionally based, and party nomination often means election in rural provinces.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/2_19_w2.htm (273 words)

	Electionworld.org's Parties on the web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This page gives entrance to the lists of the main parties in each country and contains links to these and other political parties.
		Parties are also listed when they are not officially recognized by their national government or electoral commission.
		Organisations that identify itself as a political party are listed.
	www.electionworld.org /parties.htm (123 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - DLP
		Other developments that improved the quality of television were larger screens and better technology for broadcasting and transmitting television...
		Democratic Labor Party or DLP, South Korea: political parties in South Korea
		The main political parties in South Korea are the Uri (Our Open) Party, the Grand National Party (GNP), the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), and the...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=DLP (73 words)

	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| North Korea offers dialogue with South
		North Korea has written to political leaders in the south, including the president-elect, saying it's ready for a dialogue with the new South Korean government which takes office next week.
		Seventy letters from the north to South Korean political parties and organisations were conveyed through the Red Cross at a meeting in the village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone.
		The BBC correspondent in Seoul says the North Korean offer is being viewed cautiously in the south, though any positive move is welcomed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/57998.stm (168 words)

	Asia Society: Glossary
		They were held in South Korea on April 11, 1996.
		The National Congress for New Politics suffered surprising losses in the elections; Kim Dae Jung failed to win election to the assembly.
		North Korean provocations in the DMZ may well have strengthened the vote for Kim Young Sam's New Korea Party.
	www.asiasource.org /reference/display.cfm?wordid=1554 (137 words)

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