Tens of thousands of persons are demonstrating in Korea today against a proposed trade agreement that no one in the United States knows about. One of the explicit objectives of the trade agreement is to raise the prices of medicines in Korea, and to create international norms that would make it difficult for governments to refuse to reimburse costly new medicines, negotiate lower prices, or override patents.
The negotiations on a new US Korea "Free Trade Agreement" (FTA) is only partly...
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