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North Korea holds mass rally to drum up support for 2023 policy goals

North Korea held a mass rally in Pyongyang earlier this week to call for the thorough implementations of policy goals laid out during a...

White House Chief of Staff Appoints Korean as Policy Adviser

  Hanna Kim (Korean name Kim Ye-jin, 39), a former assistant secretary of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, was appointed as Asia-Pacific policy adviser...

Former NIS chief, ex-defense minister indicted for deleting evidence in fisheries case

Prosecutors indicted without detention Thursday former National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Park Ji-won, former Defense Minister Suh Wook, and a former NIS staffer for...

Seoul, Washington considering large-scale live-fire demonstration next year

South Korea and the United States are reviewing holding a large-scale combined live-fire demonstration next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment...

U.S. F-22s in Korea for training near Jeju with Korean, U.S aircraft

American F-22 stealth fighters joined a Korea-U.S. air drill near Jeju on Tuesday, as U.S. strategic assets continue to rotate through the Korean Peninsula. The...

Seoul protests Tokyo’s new security strategy, claim to Dokdo

The Foreign Ministry summoned a counselor from the Korean Embassy in Japan to protest a National Security Strategy (NSS) released Friday that claimed sovereignty...

USFK calls recent drills ‘routine’

The United States Forces Korea (USFK) described an artillery drill conducted last week, which the North Korean military cited as a pretext for shelling...

American Space Force starts a Korean unit

The U.S. military launched a space force unit in South Korea, the United States Forces Korea (USFK) announced Wednesday. The establishment of a United States Space...

Nuclear envoys vow to tackle North’s threats together

Special envoys from South Korea, Japan, and the United States vowed to crack down on North Korea’s illicit cyber activities. “We will redouble our efforts to...

Lots of diplomacy this week on the U.S. IRA

Korean and U.S. officials are holding discussions about the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its impact on Korean industries. Second Vice Foreign Minister Lee...