SOUTH KOREA IN BRIEF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06887973
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2021
• Case Number: F-2019-02096
• Publication Date: November 13, 1992

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Ukraine: Withdrawing From Ruble Zone
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South Africa: Economic Decline Accelerates
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Haiti: Emigrant Flow May Increase
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In Brief
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Special Analyses
Russia: Grappling With Hard Currency Crisis
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East Asia
Eurasia
Americas
�Japanese trade surplus up last month, strong yen boosting export
earnings, sluggish economy reducing imports... surplus this year
$88 billion already, exceeds l986recnrbs�earend will near
$110 billion, 40 percent with US
� South Korean presidential election set for Friday, 18 December,
press reports say... opposition fears young supporters may take
long weekend, not vote. ruling-party candidate Kim Young Sam
widely considered frontrunner in close contest.
� Chechen President Dudayev yesterday urged public to drive
Russian troops out of republic.. . keeping up rhetoric against
hechen army outgunned, border incidents possible.
� Russian CFE negotiator last week proposed more flexibility on
methods used to eliminate treaty-limited equipment ... intended
to lower costs, speed destruction . excep1ihrScwieLuccessor
states most signatories probably opposed.
� Moscow, Minsk reportedly agree on schedule for withdrawal of
ICBMs from Belarus by December 1994 , .. talks with Kazakhstan
continue... Russia probably hope will press Ukraine
to fulfill nuclear-free commitment.
� Miners in town of Donetsk, Ukraine, plan one-day warning strike
today, all-out walkout starting Tuesday if law to restrict workers'
rights passes... fir me Minister Kuchma's effort to
halt economic slide
Yel'tsin yesterday ordered all Russian agencies to clear
international activities with Foreign Ministry. . recently exhorted
Ministry to become interagency leader... van
� protesting, want supraministerial coordination
� Guatemalan constitutional court has narrowly upheld President
Serrano's recnonitinn of R.lfrp cave cnnoreesinna 1 ratification now
necessary..
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