A great cross section of Korean people must have felt disappointed yesterday when the Japanese government announced the end result of its 2008 review of middle school textbooks.

News Focus: INDONESIA UNLIKELY TO HALT ITS NUCLEAR PLAN
By Otniel Tamindael

The division of the Korean Peninsula is still painful.

Radiation has no border. The world is no longer immune from the fallout of Japan???s radiation leakage. A global summit is necessary to seek ways of upgrading nuclear safety.

Rumors have it that it was the product of a recent series of unsavory episodes in courts involving male and female judges, but a ???service manual???

Radioactive material that leaked after explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant makes the whole world nervous about its possible harmful effects.

Japan reportedly plans to authorize the publication Wednesday of more middle-school textbooks stating that the Dokdo Islets are Japanese territory.

Twenty-seven of the 31 North Koreans who had drifted into South Korean waters in the West Sea in a boat early last month have returned to the North.

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By Suharto