Subscribe to arirang! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=arirang Early Edition 18:00 (THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT FOR ARIRANG NEWS THAT AIRED ON 18 Oct 2013- 18:00 KST.) Title: News Headlines On our newscast tonight. 159 Japanese politicians and the country's Internal Affairs Minister Yoshitaka Shindo make a visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, honoring the war dead, a move likely to anger Asian victims of Japan's past aggression. This despite South Korea's repeated condemnation of the move. President Park Geun-hye offers to build a logistics network called the Silk Road Express, which would link roads and railways from Korea's southeastern port city of Busan to Europe via North Korea, Russia and China. Seoul Conference on Cyberspace 2013 comes to a close on this Friday with the announcement of a joint declaration. The 2-day gathering brought together 15-hundred delegates from nearly 90 countries under the theme of "Global Prosperity through an Open and Secure Cyberspace." Stay with us for these stories and more. Title: Early Edition at 18 Title Title: Opening It is 5 a.m. in Washington, noon in Nairobi, and six on a Friday evening here in Seoul. Welcome to Early Edition at Six I'm Moon Conn-young. And I'm Daniel Choy. We begin with the President's vision for Korea and Eurasia. Title: Pres. Park proposes creating distribution, energy and economic networks in Eurasia For centuries, the Silk Road was a booming trade route that connected the East with the West. Today, President Park Geun-hye called for a new incarnation of the route called the "Silk Road Express." The Korean leader hopes the new route will connect the Eurasian region through distribution and energy networks and ultimately boost economic cooperation and trade in the region. Arirang News' presidential office correspondent Eoh Jin-joo has this report. President Park proposed binding the Eurasian region into a single continent. The first step towards this goal, she says, is creating a distribution network that connects northeastern Eurasia by railway and roads. "Eventually we should connect this network to Europe and create a so-called "Silk Road Express" that runs from Korea's Busan to Europe via North Korea, Russia, China and Central Asia." Speaking at the first international conference on Eurasian cooperation in Seoul on Friday, President Park also proposed setting up an energy network through gas and oil pipelines, as Eurasia is composed of both energy producing and consuming countries. She called on Eurasian countries to push ahead with joint projects to develop energy resources, such as shale gas in China and crude oil and gas in East Siberia. Creating a Eurasian economic bloc was another of President Park's proposals. "The Eurasian region has the regulatory foundation for a single market with the EU on its west, the ASEAN on its south and NAFTA across the Pacific Ocean." The president emphasized the importance of tearing down regulatory barriers that block trade and investment, and said Korea, China and Japan should accelerate trilateral FTA talks and link up with other regional trade deals, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Experts say President Park's Eurasian plan will support her administration's key goals of boosting the economy and setting up a foundation for a peaceful reunification. Cooperation among Eurasian nations could also eventually pressure North Korea to open up.

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