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January 18, 2019 Foreign Policy

No Davos meeting for Pompeo, Foreign Minister Kang as Trump calls off US delegation

Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha’s planned meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the sidelines of the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, will not materialize as US Presid...

US Missile Defense Review says North Korea poses ‘extraordinary threat’

North Korea poses an “extraordinary threat” to the United States and its allies, and the US should remain “vigilant,” a US Pentagon report said on Thursday (US time). The US Department of Defense un...

January 18, 2019
Defense
[Newsmaker] Seoul-Tokyo radar tussle spreads to YouTube

While the ongoing clash between Seoul and Tokyo over a recent radar incident at sea shows no signs of abating, it has also triggered controversy on YouTube, with the defense ministries of the two cou...

January 17, 2019
Defense
Seoul-Takyo radar row continues, despite talks

The end does not seem near for the ongoing radar row between Seoul and Tokyo, as the two governments continue to clash after a recent general-level meeting. The radar row erupted last month when Jap...

January 17, 2019
Defense
Navy conducts winter rescue training at sea

Some 100 members of the Navy’s Sea Salvage and Rescue Unit have been jumping into freezing sea waters since Monday, as the unit began its annual winter training at the southern port city of Jinhae, S...

January 17, 2019
Defense
GGGI inks MOU with Korea Forest Service, aims to collaborate on reforestation in NK

The Global Green Growth Institute signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Forest Service on Wednesday as it seeks to open projects related to reforestation and energy in North Korea. The...

January 16, 2019
Social affairs
Seoul, Tokyo lock horns over sharing of frequency data in radar spat

The ongoing radar spat between South Korea and Japan is deepening, with the two sides clashing over the matter of sharing the frequency of the radar signal that Tokyo claims to have detected. Japan i...

January 16, 2019
Defense
Defense white paper fudges on whether NK is 'enemy'

The Defense Ministry does not directly refer to North Korea as an enemy and takes a less hostile tone toward the communist state in its 23rd white paper published Tuesday. The ministry’s latest bien...

January 15, 2019
Defense
Veterans’ Ministry projects to celebrate centennial of independence movement

The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Monday that it would begin a set of commemoration projects to mark the 100th anniversary of the country’s Provisional Government established in 1919...

January 14, 2019
Social affairs
Trump suggests Vietnam for US-NK summit: report

US President Donald Trump suggested holding the anticipated second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam in mid-February, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday. Yomiuri Shimbun repor...

January 13, 2019
North Korea
[Feature] ‘Korea may have to import surgeons in the future’

The operating room is filled with tension. Surrounded by assistants and nurses, the surgeon holds a scalpel and cuts open the patient under the bright light of the surgical lamp above. While all doc...

January 13, 2019
Social affairs
Kim reaffirms commitment to denuclearization in meeting with Xi

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reaffirmed his determination for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and vowed to make efforts to yield positive results in the second summit with the United Stat...

January 10, 2019
North Korea
Kaesong industrial park business owners push to visit NK for seventh time

South Korean business owners that have operated at the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea requested approval to visit the inter-Korean complex on Wednesday, their seventh attempt since it was shu...

January 9, 2019
North Korea
Kim’s fourth visit to China hints US-North Korea summit imminent: expert

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s latest trip to China, the fourth of its kind, is likely a move designed for Kim to reach an accord with Pyongyang’s closest ally before holding the second US-North K...

January 8, 2019
North Korea
Defense Ministry to release video to counter Tokyo’s accusation in radar row

Seoul’s Defense Ministry is preparing to release a video clip to counter Tokyo’s accusation that a Korean Naval destroyer had locked its weapons-targeting radar onto a Japanese warplane last month, a...

January 3, 2019
Defense

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