The humans one was likely to meet in this nearly trackless forest were Chinese medicine hunters, bandits, inhabitants of little Korean settlements, and hunter-trappers of wild game.
The grinding poverty of the lower classes at home and abroad, especially in the Korean settlements in southern Manchuria, was the chief concern of the writers of the New Tendency movement, which opposed the romantic and "decadent" writers of the day and later became proletarian in spirit.
A settlement on the Korean Peninsula is crucial to peace and stability in Asia, and it is long overdue.
For North Korea, at issue was an expected windfall of $10 billion in assistance, offered in settlement of North Korean grievances over colonial atrocities committed by Japan between 1910 and 1945.
The very fact of the visit, Wang emphasized, was important because it sent a signal to the DPRK that the United States was serious about negotiating a settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue.
And while both imperial Russia and, later, the Soviet Union tried to present the Far East as a wilderness awaiting civilization, Arsenyev's complete account makes it clear that Primorye was already a richly inhabited place, home to the Nanai and Udege peoples and to scattered settlements of Chinese, Koreans, and Russian Old Believers.
Meanwhile, in a departure from its past insouciance, China is now actively trying to broker a settlement of the North Korean nuclear crisis.
"The purpose of the Beijing talks would be to seek a final settlement to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".
The Hyundai Motor Company, the South Korean automaker, has won final approval of a settlement resolving a class-action lawsuit that claimed it had overstated the horsepower of 1.3 million vehicles and inflated the value of Hyundai models.
Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors have agreed to a roughly $350 million settlement with the federal government for overstating vehicle fuel-economy standards — a deal that some analysts say indicates the Obama administration's commitment to enforcing regulations aimed at addressing climate change.
They, along with Western nations, wrested concessions in Inchon, establishing settlements dedicated to commerce and not subject to Korean law.
