We start at the National Assembly... where the government is stepping up efforts to get its multi-billion U.S. dollar supplementary budget through parliament.<br />The prime minister is scheduled to address parliament on the matter in a couple of hours,... but the deadlock there is casting doubt over whether it will go ahead.<br />For more, we connect live to our political correspondent Kim Min-ji who's standing by at the National Assembly.<br />Min-ji, since we last spoke,... have there been any developments?<br /><br /> Well a meeting between the floor leaders of the major parties and the National Assembly Speaker has just ended -- but yet again, no agreement has been reached to normalize parliament,<br /> The floor leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party told reporters that no developments have been made on setting the agenda for the April session.<br />At this point, it's unclear whether the prime minister will be able to give his policy speech as scheduled.<br />Whether the parties strike a last minute deal will have to be seen between now and 2PM -- when the plenary session is scheduled.<br />The National Assembly, as you said, has been at a standstill since the start of the April session -- which was last Monday -- with rival parties at odds over contentious bills that need to be handled... and talks on the amending the Constitution.<br />For the past week, rival lawmakers have been playing the blame game.<br />The main opposition Liberty Korea Party and the centrist Bareun Mirae Party have said they won't participate unless the ruling party is willing to make concessions.<br /><br /> So, it still appears unclear. But if they do manage to hammer out an agreement and the prime minister goes on with his policy speech at 2PM during the full parliament session -- what's he likely to emphasize and what are the prospects for the passage of the extra budget?<br /><br /> Prime Minister Lee is expected to call for cooperation from all parties for the swift passage of the almost three-point-eight billion U.S. dollar extra budget bill.<br /> The speech is expected to last about 30 minutes -- and he will likely address the country's youth unemployment woes -- stressing that the extra budget is a must in order to solve that problem.<br />The prime minister will also likely point out the need to use the extra budget to breathe life into ailing regions hit by corporate restructuring.<br />But, even if it does go on as scheduled,... the passage of the bill itself, isn't going to be easy.<br /> Opposition parties haven't been fond of the drawing up of a supplementary budget -- saying it's only been three months since this year's full budget was passed -- and they accused the government and ruling party of pumping in money to woo voters ahead of the local elections in June.<br />On top of that, this new budget comes less than a year since the government's first extra budget was implemented -- with some parties questioning the effectiveness of the extra budget -- and saying that the impact of the previous supplementary budget has to be as
