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2009/04/14 21:06 KST
(2nd LD) Seoul decides to join PSI, announcement due Wednesday

   (ATTN: UPDATES throughout with Seoul's decision on PSI membership)
SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea decided Tuesday to participate in the U.S.-led global effort to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction, but it withheld announcing it until President Lee Myung-bak signs a related document, a diplomatic source said.

Seoul's widely anticipated decision to join the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) came at a regular Cabinet-level meeting on foreign and security policy, presided over by the country's top diplomat, Yu Myung-hwan, the source added.