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Postscript - What the papers said this week.
(From Post Magazine)
Financial Times
HSBC plans to double the proportion of profits it makes from insurance by 2012. The bank has decided it is under-represented in this area. HSBC has told shareholders and financial analysts that it makes $2bn a year, approximately 10% of pre-tax profits, from insurance, but wants to double that. It has increased its focus on insurance lines, moving Clive Bannister from the important private banking division to a new job heading the insurance business globally.
The Times
North Korea is fighting a GBP30m legal battle with insurance syndicates at Lloyd's of London, which accuses it of making fraudulent claims in an attempt to prop up its collapsing economy. Supporters of North Korea's claim say that the insurers are trying to renege on a risky contract. It is also suggested they failed to differentiate ...
- NORTH KOREA: WE'VE GOT NUKES \ FIRST PUBLIC ADMISSION.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) February 10, 2005 700+ words
...Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea announced for the first time today it...started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation...could not be independently verified. North Korea expelled the last U.N. nuclear monitors...
- NORTH KOREA THIS WEEK NO. 439 (March 8, 2007)*** NEWS IN BRIEF (Part 2).
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea March 9, 2007 700+ words
North Korea to counter enriched uranium program allegations: report SEOUL (Yonhap) -- North Korea is ready to counter allegations that it...Association of Korean Residents in Japan. North Korea had stated its position to the U.S...
- North Korea's nuclear disclosure also reveals U.S. policy failure.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 17, 2002 700+ words
...Although this week's revelation that North Korea has a nuclear weapons program was seen...pursued a program of nudging and coaxing North Korea into compliance with international treaties...such as uranium. For just as long, North Korea has prevented inspections of key sites...
- Engaging North Korea Was a Failure, Critics Say.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 18, 2002 700+ words
...Although this week's revelation that North Korea has a nuclear weapons program was seen...pursued a program of nudging and coaxing North Korea into compliance with international treaties...such as uranium. For just as long, North Korea has prevented inspections of key sites...
- NORTH KOREA NO THREAT TO THE U.S. MILITARY.(Perspective)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 9, 1991 700+ words
...Panama in 1989; and Iraq in 1991. North Korea is being suggested as the next such villain...the Defense Department is pointing to North Korea as the enemy. Is it right to demonize North Korea to keep these bases? In March, the U...
- North Korea Sticks to Rhetoric, Pretends to Ignore Mounting Pressure.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 9, 2003 700+ words
...With the diplomatic ball in its court, North Korea stuck Wednesday to its long-held game...Tuesday and formally agreed to talk with North Korea, the isolated communist country's...between North and South Korea. What North Korea dismissed as a false rumor is the U...
- North Korea crisis is only postponed, not solved. (Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rubin, Trudy June 24, 1994 700+ words
...add that I am not sorry Carter went to North Korea. His behavior was outrageous, fawning...policies. And he brought back little that North Korea hadn't promised, and reneged on...open a brief window of time in which North Korea has another chance to spell out its...
- North Korea makes diplomatic gestures to Japan, South Korea.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) August 30, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Michael A. Lev BEIJING _ North Korea took two significant steps out of isolation...Korean War. Gestures of diplomacy by North Korea's secretive and bellicose regime are...potential sources of financial aid for North Korea, and any progress would make it easier...