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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:44:17 -0500
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- Subject: NEWS/VN: S.Korea-VN normalization
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- 12/19
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- South Korea-Vietnam
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- Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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- SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea will normalize relations next week
- with Vietnam, ending an animosity that developed during the Vietnam War,
- Foreign Ministry officials said today.
- Ministry spokesman Yoo Myung-hwan said normalization would be announced
- during Foreign Minister Lee Sang-ock's three-day visit to Vietnam, starting
- Dec. 21.
- The new ties will cap a year-long South Korean bid to expand economic
- relations with Vietnam.
- Vietnam has tried to entice South Korean firms into its development
- projects. South Korea wants to use Vietnam's resources and labor as a new
- base for its overseas investment.
- Despite the lack of relations, trade between Vietnam and South Korea has
- increased steadily, with South Korean investments in Vietnam estimated at $6.2
- million as of December this year.
- From 1964 through 1973, about 310,000 South Korean troops were dispatched to
- Vietnam to fight alongside U.S. soldiers.
-