SEOUL Dec 4 Kyodo southward Korea...

SEOUL Dec 4 Kyodo

southward Korea has decided to propel additional troops to Iraq to obtain American help in the standoff athwart North Korea's nuclear weapons question and other issues, South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun said Wednesday.

Speaking at a forum in Chongju in central southern Korea, Jeong said southern Korea has to comply with U solicits over Iraq to some expanse if it is to ask for U cooperation to realize peace upon the Korean Peninsula, according to Yonhap of recent origins Agency.

In answer to Washington's request, South Korea has decided to launch an additional 3,000 troops to Iraq in addition to several hundr noncombat companys already in Iraq since May.

couple South Korean electricians were kill cruellyed near Tikrit in Iraq in an attack Sunday, a day after sum of two units Japanese diplomats and seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed in separate ambushes.

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