Staff writer
South Korea has asked Japan to extend $3 billion in fresh loans from the Export-Import Bank of Japan as soon as possible to assist the economically struggling country's trade financing, international financial sources disclosed Friday.
Japan will decide whether to accept the request -- which was made recently but kept confidential -- before South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's planned first state visit to Tokyo in early October, the sources said.
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