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July 17, 2019 Defense

[News Focus] Military under fire, marred by lack of discipline, cover-ups

South Korea’s military has come under fire after a series of incidents involving false testimonies and security failures, showing laxity in discipline. Opposition parties have submitted a motion cal...

Military investigating report of periscope-like object off Haengdam Island Service Area: JCS

An object that looks like a periscope of a submarine was spotted in the waters around Haengdam Island Service Area on the Seohaean Expressway, in South Chungcheong Province, Korea’s Joint Chiefs of S...

July 17, 2019
Defense
2 Japanese defense attaches recalled after secretly obtaining military secrets: report

Two Japanese defense attaches in South Korea have returned back to their home country after they were found to have obtained classified military information, a local daily reported Tuesday. Accordin...

July 16, 2019
Defense
Pyongyang promotes Kumgangsan tour program for foreigners

North Korea will resume its Kumgangsan tour program in late July, the country’s propaganda media outlet said Monday, in an apparent attempt to overcome the economic burden of the international sancti...

July 15, 2019
North Korea
US waits for North Korea’s response on working-level nuclear talks

The US government is waiting for a response from North Korea after proposing to resume working-level negotiations on denuclearization this week, diplomatic sources said Sunday. North Korea has yet t...

July 14, 2019
North Korea
[Feature] Hanawon: Helping NK defectors settle better in capitalist South

Since the two Koreas separated in 1953, about 33,000 North Koreans have taken the life-risking, circuitous journey to the other side of the border, seeking to escape hunger and oppression in their ho...

July 7, 2019
North Korea
Korean sitcom on multicultural families in Jeju exported to Vietnam

Korean sitcom “Haiphong Families,” which deals with the realities of multicultural families here, will soon be shown in Vietnam. Aired from May to October last year, the 20-episode sitcom by broadca...

July 4, 2019
Television
Government admits failure over N.Korean boat incident, denies cover-up

The government on Wednesday admitted to security failure, but rejected the accusation that it attempted to downplay the incident in which a North Korean boat arrived at a South Korea seaport undetect...

July 3, 2019
Defense
[Diplomatic circuit] Korea, Japan, China to discuss ways to save crested ibis in Seoul

Experts and government officials from South Korea, Japan and China will gather in Seoul next week to discuss ways to improve the environment for the crested ibis, an endangered species, an internatio...

July 2, 2019
Diplomatic Circuit
Surprise meeting of Moon-Trump-Kim coordinated in secret at midnight

The historic trilateral meeting of leaders of the two Koreas and the United States on Sunday was realized with the US point man on North Korea and North Korean officials working behind the scenes wel...

June 30, 2019
North Korea
Trump 5th US president to visit DMZ, first to cross to North

US President Donald Trump made history when he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Joint Security Area in the Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, becoming the first sitting US president to meet a No...

June 30, 2019
North Korea
President’s adviser calls on NK to take bold steps to resume talks

North Korea should take bold actions to resume the stalled denuclearization negotiations with the United States, a security adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday. Moon Chung-in...

June 27, 2019
North Korea
[Herald Interview] When your hometown is in S. Korea, but homeland is North Korea

The idea of a “fatherland” is not much thought or talked about, as it seems so obvious. But for many ethnic Korean residents of Japan, the yearning for the “fatherland” remains, as they strive to mai...

June 26, 2019
North Korea
Kaesong industrial park should reopen: UN human rights envoy

Kaesong industrial park should be reopened regardless of sanctions, as tens of thousands of North Korean workers suffer from jobs lost, which also cuts access to adequate health care and food, a UN e...

June 21, 2019
North Korea
Government under fire over suspected attempts to play down NK boat incident

Controversy over an incident involving a North Korean boat has continued following the revelation that a Cheong Wa Dae official attended closed-door press briefings at the Ministry of National Defens...

June 21, 2019
North Korea

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