Category: Korea
Korea’s Moon offers olive branch to Japan
South Korean President Moon Jae-in struck a conciliatory tone towards Japan on Thursday, offering to “join hands” if Tokyo chooses dialogue as relations between [...]
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S. Korea’s Moon calls for talks to end trade row with Japan
South Korean President Moon Jae-in offered an olive branch to Japan to end an ongoing trade dispute Thursday, saying Seoul will “gladly join hands” if Tokyo wants [...]
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Korea moves to kick its missile defense shield up a notch
South Korea plans to spend more money on boosting its missile defense shield in response to North Korea’s evolving missile capability, the Ministry of National Defense [...]
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N Korean media: New US missiles in Korea would trigger ‘new Cold War’
North Korea warned that the US would trigger a “new Cold War” and a mounting arms race if it decides to place new ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in [...]
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Korea to get New US Defenses, North warns of ‘Path to self destruction’
South Korea’s armed forces laid out a five-year plan to bolster the country’s military posture, including new US-built defenses, as North Korea warned their [...]
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Korean peninsula will be united by 2045, says Seoul amid Japan row
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, has vowed to achieve the unification of the Korean peninsula by 2045, a century after the end of the second world war. In a speech [...]
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Japan, Korea vice foreign ministers to meet this week Kyodo
Japanese and South Korean vice foreign ministers will meet this week to discuss the issue of forced World War Two labourers, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday, amid an [...]
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S. Korea begins process to remove Japan’s trusted trade partner status
South Korea’s trade ministry on Wednesday started the process to drop Japan from its list of trusted trading partners, in a tit-for-tat move amid the growing trade row [...]
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Korea commemorates ‘comfort women’ memorial day
South Korea on Wednesday observed its official “comfort women” memorial day for a second year, with a ceremony commemorating Korean women who were forced to work [...]
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Deploying new US missiles would be ‘reckless act’: N Korean media
Any move by the United States to place new ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in South Korea could spark a “new Cold War” and an escalating arms race in [...]
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Brain-chip engineer tapped to lead Korea’s science ministry
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has nominated Choi Ki-young, who leads an effort to create semiconductor chips that mimic processes in the brain, to be the new [...]
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Trump mulling N Korea envoy to be next ambassador to Moscow
The White House is discussing whether to replace Jon Huntsman, the outgoing US ambassador to Moscow, with Steve Biegun, the special representative for North Korea, two [...]
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US beef exports to Korea setting new records
US beef exports to South Korea set a new monthly value record in June, at more than $178 million, according to the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF); export volume was 2 [...]
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N Korea boosts Kim’s rising status as global statesman
There’s no question that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in full control of his nation. But a recent change to how he’s being formally described in the North [...]
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N Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
“This is an intentional reminder that if diplomacy fails, North Korea will only be stronger and more capable today than it was four years ago,” said one expert. [...]
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