Yonhap News: “President Bush Knows About Dokdo”
And is apparently preparing his remarks on the subject for next month’s visit. Perhaps his words can mollify the protestors planning to greet him.
Update: Maybe the president really does care about the issue. The Chosun Ilbo reports that in a meeting with reporters from the Chosun Ilbo, Bangkok Post, China’s People’s Daily and Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President Bush said that, “the Dokdo database will be returned to its previous state of seven days ago” and called for Korea and Japan to come to a peaceful resolution of the dispute. The paper says that he spoke knowledgeably on Dokdo, Ulleung-do, and Korea and Japan in general. Also, in a brief interview with the Chosun Ambassador Lee said that, “our current goal is for the name Dokdo to be used generally,” rather than Liancourt Rocks.
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Korea Develops New Atomic Clock
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science said Wednesday that it has developed an atomic clock that the agency claims is ten times more accurate than the current cesium atomic clock.
The cesium atomic clock defines one second as the duration of about nine-point-one billion resonance frequency cycles of the cesium atom, and has been used as the international standard since 1967.
The state-run institute said the new atomic clock achieved greater accuracy by using a technology to control ten factors that affect the cesium atom’s resonance frequency.
30% of Women Deliver by Caesarean
More than 30 percent of Korean women deliver babies by Caesarean section.
According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, some 37 percent of pregnant women delivered their babies via C-section in the first half of last year, up from 36 percent in 2006.
The state-run agency attributes the increase in C-sections to a rise in the number of mothers older than 35 and the growing rate of women carrying more than one baby at a time.
The rates of Caesarean sections by hospital vary from nine percent to 60 percent.
C-sections are conducted when the obstetrician decides that natural delivery poses a life-threatening danger to the mother or infant. The World Health Organization recommends the procedure be conducted on only five to 15 percent of pregnant women.
